North Korea Cancels Anti-USA Rallies in Latest Sign That Trump and Kim Jong-Un are Getting Along

Newsweek ^ | 06/25/2018 | Tom O'Connor

[SeekAndFind]

North Korea has apparently chosen not to host its annual mass rally marking the end of a formative conflict with South Korea and its top partner the U.S., as President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un pursue unprecedented diplomatic ties between their nations.

Every June 25, North Korea remembers the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, known as the Day of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism. The event sets off a month of patriotic displays that conclude with the Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War, a holiday commemorating the signing of an armistice that put an end to three bloody years of fighting between communist North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea on July 27, 1953. Reports of U.S. war crimes and indiscriminate bombing of Korean cities throughout the conflict has been the basis of North Korean propaganda targeting the U.S. for more than six decades.

While no North Korean officials have publicly discussed whether or not the country planned to organize any events as the date approached, the Associated Press's staff in Pyongyang confirmed Monday that the long-running display of fervent nationalism and anti-imperialism would not be held this year.

The move would be the latest in a series of rare North Korean gestures that both Trump and Kim have said were aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and establishing peace that has eluded the region since the Korean War, which next month's national holiday was designed to memorialize.

Despite threatening to annihilate one another throughout 2017, Trump and Kim have since forged a fragile, historic relationship that produced the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean supreme leader earlier this month.

[Jack Hammer]

And Kim is dismantling his nukes and test sites and arranging for international inspections...?

Yes?

Yes....?

[HiTech RedNeck]

And no matter how great N grows in step N reached, there are those who will screech and be sarcastic about step N+1.

The truth was that Kim was going to run out of this crap very quickly, not even being able to test it properly without turning his land into a radioactive mess that even China wouldn’t want next to it.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Excuse me, but let’s focus on the timeline here: Accomplished 1.5 years in office.

[AmericanInTokyo]

History point.

They did this also under Clinton, Obama and a bit under Bush2 second administration when they got some concessions from DC. They turn it on and off like spigot. It is temporary. They will raise tensions again including new missile launches when they don’t get what they want, or want another payoff installment. Only a fool in his heart would think NK has really changed

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

They did not get concessions. They got to screen a movie trailer.

[I want the USA back]

The Sara Sanders/red hen crap came at the right time for the left. They used it to push the good news about Trump and North Korea out of the public’s mind, so that no one would be recommending him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[TruthWillWin]

Now if we could just get the left to cancel their Anti-USA
Rallies.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: And Kim is dismantling his nukes and test sites and arranging for international inspections...?

Yes?

Yes....?

__________________________

NOT YET.

In other words — too soon to celebrate. VERIFY VERIFY VERIFY ( and I don’t want to use the word Trust here ).

[pgkdan]

North Korea Cancels Anti-USA Rallies

Now if only the democrats would do the same thing...

[confederatecarpetbag]

What concessions have we made to NK? U.S. and UN sanctions remain in place and our military remains stationed in S Korea, and NK did not receive planeloads of unaccountable federal money (or other blandishments) as a bribe.

I get the skepticism, but experts agree the Norks likely won’t have enough cash to continue paying the military beyond Sept or October. It’s possible NK walks away, but it will have lost tremendous face if it were to try and resume nuke testing.