Posted on 02/26/2019 10:17:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump landed Tuesday in Vietnam for his crucial summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- the president's second meeting as part of a bold push to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
“Looking forward to a very productive Summit,” Trump tweeted on Monday before boarding Air Force One.
Trump landed in Hanoi hours after Kim arrived by armored train. The summit will take place later this week. Officials in Hanoi told The Associated Press that they only had about 10 days to prepare, but promised airtight security for the two leaders.
But the chaotic preparations included the White House press corps being shifted to a new hotel before Kim arrived. Kim subsequently toured parts of Hanoi, where locals stood behind barriers to catch a glimpse of the leader of the hermit kingdom.
Trump has repeatedly hailed his meeting with Kim in Singapore last June as a success, although there were few concrete outcomes from the summit.
North Korea initially turned over 55 boxes of presumed remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War as part of the agreement from the summit, although it has not yet followed through with returning additional remains.
North Korea also pledged to work “toward” complete denuclearization, something critics say the communist regime has not adequately honored either.
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Perhaps John F’n Kerry can give him a tour
When the Green New Deal gets passed, I assume there will be a Train Force One to get the POTUS where he needs to be.
Jane Fonda is strangely silent.
I hope the Pueblo’s release is going to come up in discussions.
I don’t understand the train trip. In what universe is a train across China safer than a modern aircraft? And if he doesn’t have one, we could have lent him Pelosi’s 767.
It would have been great optics.
Bill Clinton blew that one. Back in 98, the Norks towed it around the Korean peninsula from the east coast, around to the west coast where it sits today.
Sailing openly through international waters.
We should have sunk it. No sense risking SEALS when it might be a monstrous booby trap bomb. Some sub should have sent it to the bottom. Then tell the world it was our ship and we’ll dammed well do whatever we please with it.
But Albright was too busy clicking champagne glasses with Kim and giving them nuclear plants because they promised not to reprocess fuel.
How about no more missile tests and threats for 16 months? It appears Trump forgot to gift-wrap it. Literally Hitler!
They probably do not still burn the shiiters, but it was more than that. The "going natural" out in the fields added to the bouquet.
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