N. Korea wants talks with Trump

~ susie

If he successfully pulls this off, I’d be happy to give him credit. But clearly he’s going to be the sucker in this particular poker game. He’s completely oblivious to the important nuances of diplomacy and ill-prepared on policy. I predict he’s going to make disastrous promises he can’t keep, but he won’t be able to simply talk them away this time, and it will have serious consequences. There is no way Kim Jong Un is going to give up his nukes, but Trump will flatter himself that he pulled it off:

North Korea has invited President Donald Trump to meet their leader Kim Jong Un according to a senior US official and a former US senior official.

Trump told reporters Thursday that South Korea will make a “major announcement” concerning North Korea at 7 p.m. ET.

On Thursday a South Korean delegation came to the White House to brief officials on its most recent talks with North Korea — the most significant talks between the two countries in more than a decade.

The South Korean officials visiting the White House on Thursday talked to Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.

They delivered a letter from Kim Jong Un to Trump inviting him to meet, according to a senior US official and a former US senior official.

The senior US official said North Korea has offered to suspend their nuclear missile testing alongside their invitation for talks. The official also said there are no plans to suspend the upcoming planned military exercises with South Korea.

However:

https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/971915561587261440

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3 thoughts on “N. Korea wants talks with Trump”

  1. Tillerson has been out to lunch for months.

    Progressives had a pretty good week.

    Whenever you can screw the Globalists (neo-liberals & Fascist Capitalists) by enacting selective tariffs AND roll the warmongers by agreeing to talk to the North Korean’s then you’ve had a pretty good week.

    Now if we can throw off the yoke of Zionist extremism by pursuing real rapproachement with Iran, then things will get even better.

    Trump is within reach of burying the fossil fuel industries (Bush and Chaney) imperialistic dream of destroying the “axis of evil.”

  2. This could be a good thing, perhaps even a thing only a very impulsive president like him could do.
    It would be nice to have a functioning state department, ambassador to South Korea, or special envoy in charge of North Korea to assist in the preparations for such a meeting, but we don’t, and that is not this president’s MO anyway, so I guess we’ll get what we get.
    I have to say, though, Kim Jong-un has played this almost masterfully. He has achieved the goals of his father and grandfather almost to the letter: He now has nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them according to our own military intelligence, so he actually has something to negotiate with, and now he’s been accepted onto the world stage for a meeting with the US president, out of the pariah status his country has been under since what? the fifties?
    That doesn’t make him good, or help the desperate nature of the situation his people live in, but as for achieving his goals, he’s done well, for a crazy-ass dictator of an isolated and impoverished country.
    I wonder what China thinks of these developments?

  3. The Kim dynasty has lasted for 60+ years.

    For every one of those 60+ years the US has tried to end its existence.
    By any means necessary. These are not stupid people.

    China will never accept a unified Korea where the US dominates its economic and foreign policy.
    That would be like China or Russia stationing 30,000 troops and weapons systems in Mexico or Canada and then calling the shots.

    The best that can be hoped for now is an open border situation between the North and South, and normalized relations with one another.
    Trade, monetary integration, integration of the arts and education, etc.

    A peaceful existence absent war. Something that we should try and soon.

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