"What you mean, 'Ready to walk away'??? No cash? No food??? No stuff??? What about sending us that Carter guy?"
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After his Decades of experience with big city mobs and politicians who stood in the way of the process of building his buildings, Kim Jong on is a baby.
President Trump will have his way with him.
North Korea never had any intention of negotiating or de-nuking.
The press will falsely accuse Trump of pumping up his “aura” and claiming that this was Nobel Prize worthy, when NOBODY on the Trump team said any such thing. It was entirely the hanger-on sycophant crowd.
But when the press claims this, I want them called out as the filthy liars they are; not politely pointing out the mild misstatement on their part.
Someone needs to explain who John Bolton is to Kim Jung Un.
Once again Trump outsmarted liddle rocket man.
Walk away and move more Bombers to Guam ? LOL
The U.S. basically walked away from North Korea when John Bolton announced the other day that the U.S. wants to use the Libyan disarmament approach for North Korea. What foreign leader in his right mind would look at what happened in Libya and treat the U.S. as a sincere party in any negotiation of any kind?
Is Kim really waffling, or is this the MSM inventing “news” and trying to deny Trump a major accomplishment?
I like her response but I would have preferred “we can either do this the easy way or the hard way, the choice is yours”. Meet or starve, running dog!
What exactly would be Kim’s role in a unified Korea? Kim has to have nukes to stay alive. There is zero upside for him to improve relations.
Running military exercises immediately in advance of the summit can only be viewed by North Korea as a threat.
To negotiate effectively one must put oneself in the mind of the opponent and try to view the world from the opponent’s perspective. If I were Kim I would not trust the US given the long history of betrayals and broken promises in the last 70 years. In 1961 the US sent Cubans into Cuba and then failed to provide the promised support thereby insuring the failure at the Bay of Pigs. In 1974-75 the US reneged on its promised support of the South Vietnamese “allies” ensuring they would fall to the communists. In 1979 the US government abandoned the Shah of Iran, resulting in the takeover by the Islamic militants. In 2010/2011 the US supported the Muslim Brotherhood in its efforts to overthrow its allyEgyptian leader Hosni Mubarack despite Mubarack’s long term support for peace with Israel. Consider also the abandonment of the Iraqi government in 2010, resulting in the rise of ISIS.
Kim must be particularly concerned about the treatment of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Gaddafi succumbed to US and European pressure to abandon his nuclear program. Then the US betrayed him in 2011 when it actively supported the Islamic militant rebels with arms and airstrikes, ultimately resulting in Gaddafi’s brutal death at the hands of the Islamists. The US sent a clear message to dictators. Give up your nuclear weapons and we will kill you.
The President Trump who Kim may negotiate with over nuclear weapons is the same Trump who is “renegotiating” American trade agreements with China and Mexico (NAFTA) and who has stated he will walk away from those agreements. He also just reneged on the agreement with Iran made by his predecessor.
Given the behavior of the US over the past few decades why would any nation trust the US will live up to its agreement. It is hard to imagine that Kim will give up his nuclear weapons and expect to live.
I have a sneaky feeling that Kim isn’t calling all the shots in North Korea. He has a powerful military that has a big stake in maintaining the status quo. They have no desire to see N. Korea begin to become a Western Style Economy which would threaten their status as the ultimate power and first in all aspects of rewards and power.
Let the liberal caterwauling commence!
Lil’ Kim must be getting a lot of push back from his Generals. A coup and an end to the Kim dynasty may be in the offing.
OK, maybe I sound like a Quisling. Why conduct these exercises now?
Trump is not negotiating. He is showing up to accept North Koreas surrender.
Agree. I wonder how much of this pushback by N. Korea is done by the military. I’d read that both parties had discussed the military exercise and agreed ok for this year.
John Bolten’s “Libya model” comment was not at all helpful. Kim most likely does not want to share Col. Qaddafi fate. Obama and Hillary have royally screwed things up.