Posted on 06/30/2019 6:25:44 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
When President Trump sent a Twitter invitation on Friday to North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to meet at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas — “just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” — both men had much to gain, and more to lose.
If Mr. Kim did not attend, even though his side had seemed intrigued, it would have embarrassed Mr. Trump and opened him up to more criticism for his unpredictable diplomacy. It would also have compounded the dramatic failure of their summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, which Mr. Trump abruptly called off in February. . . .
“Tomorrow, North Korea will still have nuclear weapons, and the U.S. will still maintain sanctions,” said Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
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2. This was more than a handshake.
3. Viewers saw a close-up view of a border with a grim history.
4. The world will be watching to see what comes next.
President Richard Milhouse Nixon opens the doors to China in 1972.
Donald John Trump opens the doors to North Korea in 2019.
Both extremely consequential events for the United States and the world.
Thanks, didn’t know they met for a hour in th3 builder. I keep seeing the words “photo op” from AOC and crew.
Didn’t Reagan open the doors to USSR also???
I’m still trying to figure out what O’Dingelberry got the Nobel prize for.
Of course you didn’t. The Main Lining Media wanted to turn something consequential into a photo op. Didn’t work. They were proven complacent.
I didn’t think of it that way, but I guess you’re right.
Wow, my bad. Reagan really stuck his neck out against the advice of almost everybody, but came home with the prize.
Thanks for the correction.
For nothing.
Well Evita Khrushchev knows from photo ops
I love how war is always the last option bit talking isn’t even an option. The “leaders” over the years are idiots quite frankly.
I posted the best video I’ve seen on the event, post 12. It was chaos. Obviously unplanned. Stephanie Grisham shoved NK security aside to make a path for the US press pool to get by.
Amazing video.
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Right! "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Within two years we watched the citizens of Germany dismantle it! What a historical and exciting night that was.
For those of us that lived through the cold war, it was unimaginable! Once President Reagan got the ball rolling, it felt like it was overnight.
Hell, they didn't even know why they gave it to him.
He was nominated for it some weeks before he was inaugurated.
Being black
half-black?
Listening and watching the President at work throughout the world, I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln and his approach to handling his enemies:
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. “Why do you try to make friends of them?” asked an associate. “You should try to destroy them.” “Am I not destroying my enemies,” Lincoln gently replied, “when I make them my friends?”
I’ve done my few moments in the press pool for an event, it is amazing how agressive you have to be to get the simplest thing. I was gobsmacked when I saw the video, and I’d not be surprised to find out more than a few senior secret service officials are somewhere in a hospital with a heart attack seeing the US President walk alone into North Korea and step onto that road.
I’m sure it was carefully orchestrated with a billion failsafes in place, but wow, even if it were just theater, that was a statement at the DMZ.
Tell me again why Jimmy Carter is busy attacking Trump rather than thanking Obama for making him look good?
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