Always in favor of trying everything to maintain peaceful coexistence, but the North Koreans do not have a history of trustworthiness and I do not trust Trump and his cohorts to be competent negotiators either. It honestly wouldn’t shock me to see Trump agree to some kind of asinine plan that would totally alienate our long term allies in the region. Anything for a bit of good press and another few days of distraction from all of the scandals surrounding him and his people.
I don’t really like the options in the poll. I hope something good happens. That does not transform trump into a respectable president overnight though. His disgrace is set it stone and history will remind those in the future.
Trump wants a deal. Kim knows this.
Kim wants the end of sanctions.
Kim will promise some stuff to get rid of sanctions.
Trump will cut a deal that will be worse then the Iran deal.
Trump will try to convince us that it was a great deal.
Kim will not keep his promise.
Russia will do their best to cozy up to Kim.
NK will finally learn how to put a nuke on a ICBM.
Cycle starts again.
Film at eleven.
This is exactly what will happen. Even if Kim promises something small, Trump will run around saying ZOMG its the greatest piece of diplomacy in history and I did all by myself, and then nothing tangible ever actually happens.
The major winner of the summit will be North and South Korea. These relationship between these two countries has been damaged for decades. I see it moving forward and the border being opened with in the next 2 years.
The people of North Korea have to be exposed to the real world out there and South Korea is where they’ll first discover it. Over time, they will be the ones to overthrow the current regime. It’s going to happen inside/out but this summit will begin this process.
If North Korea opens themselves up for actual inspections, we have a serious deal. If they don’t, it’s all talk. I do think that they’ve made some token gestures so far that should set the ground work for those at the summit to ease economic sanctions in return for some nuclear gains. Keep in mind though…it’s all bull feces if China doesn’t wave their “big stick” in the background.