"PYONGYANG, North Korea — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in North Korea on Friday for a series of talks aimed at persuading the country to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs — a mission that in his conversations with at least two outside experts he has said was doomed from the outset.
John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, does not believe that North Korea intends to surrender its nuclear or ballistic missile weapons programs, he has told others.
If failure is inevitable, Mr. Pompeo wants it to come more quickly this time, so the administration can return to its maximum pressure campaign of sanctions and diplomatic isolation of North Korea, he has told advisers.
If the administration decides to return to a campaign of maximum pressure, officials have privately acknowledged, the administration may not again be able to persuade the world that Mr. Kim is out of control and cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons."
How many of us were saying just this, about the horrific decision to hold the summit. By legitimizing Kim, and making him appear rational and normal, and lauding praise and adulation upon him for being such a great leader, he has taken the cards off the table that he is a deranged lunatic pointing a gun at the head of us and our allies.
And Kim can point to Libya as proof as to why he should not give up his nuclear arsenal, which could be viewed by his allies like China, and nation’s who would seek to do business with North Korea and who want to stick it to the US, like Russia, reasons to agree with Kim and oppose the US’s return to maximum pressure. Leaving us with even less viable options, and making an actual shooting war more probable.
This is just another example of how dangerous and horrible it is having an unintelligent, intellectually uncurious, reactionary conman who knows nothing about the world, trying to lead the most influential and powerful nation on Earth.
I’d say, Trump has an even greater opportunity to hammer NK with sanctions because he gave him an honest chance and the whole world witnessed it. If Kim doesn’t want to play, then he and his country can pay and if ya don’t believe me…just watch.
And now the Norks are denouncing you for raising human rights issues again. What are the chances you stop criticising them on that front the same way you suspended military exercises?
But how do you think that conversation goes? Trump asking the Chinese and EU to help ramp up sanctions while simultaneously ramping up tariffs on goods from the EU and China.
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