What would you rather have...Kim firing missiles or talking to the Pope?
“What would you rather have...Kim firing missiles or talking to the Pope?”
Exactly.
The Pope should go. I’m under no illusion that Kim has suddenly become a swell guy and wants to convert to Catholicism. The folks that like to berate Trump because Kim hasn’t denuclearized and is (obviously) stalling miss the point that as long as he’s talking to Trump, and maybe the Pope, then he isn’t causing trouble. Yeah, we all know that the standard North Korean playbook is to rattle the sabres until the west gives you something but if Kim is smart he’ll realize that there really is something in it for him to make nice with the west. Trump doesn’t want to depose him, he just wants him to stop being a pain in the ass. In return Kim actually has a chance to become a leader that his people love by improving their lives. They’ve been starving for 50 years, it’s not like it’ll take much to make their lives better. A thawing of relations with the U.S. and South Korea has the potential to dramatically improve the life of the average North Korean and Kim will benefit from that.
Jesus hung out with the undesirables, not the pious. His companions were criminals, whores, lepers, and tax collectors. I’m not a big fan of this pope, he’s chosen fiscal and cultural marxism which history has shown only enrichens the elites at the expense of the common man. If he really wants to do something to help God’s children then there are a whole bunch of them in North Korea that could use his help by engaging Kim and trying to bring him into the modern world. That’s if he can give up some of his time hanging out with hollywood celebrities, rock stars, and rich socialists.