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So some here say it’s a TOTAL ploy like Kim’s pop did before him.
Some here, like me, think he’s scared to death of dying.
I’m told I dont understand the eastern/Asian mindset and they don’t have the fear of dying that many Americans do.
Anyone care to enlighten me either way?
Superb diplomacy on the part of the Trump team. If China gets involved in this summit, it’s even better. We can perhaps foresee an emerging Asia working in cooperation with Trump for a new economic world partnership. Europe’s actions in conjunction with the Soros-Obama-Hillary socialists, have brought only weakness onto the world stage. A finger in the air to Europe, let them take a backseat as they wail about Trump’s actions concerning Iran and the embassy moving to Jerusalem.
The previously wrecked tunnels will be destroyed to cover up the previous wrecking thus preventing inspection
1) Decommission an already collapsed mountain base after you have confirmed your hbomb designs work.
2) Make a show of it and some handshakes. The west will be happy you’re getting rid of nukes and turn a blind eye to all the abuses in your gulag of a country.
3) Get free billions to prop up your failed regime and quietly build another underground base.
4) Stack nukes underground to threaten the World again when money runs out.
If true Trump should get the next 12 Nobel Peace Prizes.
Pomp and circumstance.
Requires international inspections, not NORK say so.
“Trump is showing the world the US can’t be trusted to keep its commitments.”
“Trump is giving away the farm.”
“Kim Jong Un is making a fool out of Trump.”
“We gotsta peech Trump”
Did I miss anything?
So tired are the lefts talking point in the face of an opposit reality, really no need to watch or comment on the derangement any longer.
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North Korea to hold ‘ceremony’ dismantling Iran’s nuclear R&D site ahead of Trump’s summit with Kim.
there. fixed it.
They probably figure that they’ve trashed that mountain and would need to find another site elsewhere.
Hey, everyone, lighten up. Bush was responsible for Obama’s bad economy for 6 years, so why can’t Obama get credit for Trump’s foreign policy successes? After all, Obama IS a Nobel Prize laureate.
All those years “leading from behind” are finally bearing fruit, you see.
[sarcasm off ... sometimes it’s really hard to write this B.S.]
Burying evidence before inspectors come in? Covering up for stuff that they are hiding elsewhere?
Everything that the inspectors seek to account for, just happens to have been buried in that mountain, too contaminated to examine...
In any event, it is a strong indicator that they plan to go ahead with a deal of some sort.
With Kim it’s nothing more than a moving sale. North Korea would sell just about anything to anyone, so in that sense they’re a very large proliferation threat.
The thing that has constrained the threat from North Korea in recent years has been that only Syria seemed interested in developing a North Korean-like reactor. Everybody else was going the uranium route that the Khan network had promoted.
But now that North Korea is in that business, I’m quite worried that North Korea’s procurement network will be put at the service of other countries. And Iran, released from the nuclear race block by Obama and Clinton by the unauthorized treaty with Iran, has received a bunch of funds from the formerly frozen accounts all over the world and has admitted to being in the market for the race again. And Kim hasn’t told the truth in the last 20 years.
Here is an excellent article from National Re4view on the topic:
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Not sure what there is to dismantle at this point. Didn’t Mount Mantap collapse in on itself after the Nork’s last nuclear test killing dozens/hundreds of their nuclear scientists?
China’s end game is the reclamation of Tawain. China is willing to let North Korea reunify with the South and become their problem. After that, inducements and pressure will be applied to encourage the island to rejoin the mainland.
(It may be they just blew up their own site by accident, this makes it look like they are doing something).
Yesterday, @ThomasWictor said Trump & Kim are communicating via phone. Wonder if Trump suggested Kim do that? Either way, Kim’s trying to get on the good side of Trump.