So It’s Official - America Has Recognized North Korea As An International Equal

[Jamerican]

The people of NK should have been the priority. We needed pre-conditions and this should have been one of them. To me these talks were a farce. All it did was legitimized Jr. Kim, gave him a seat at the table.

[conan]

We are not giving up our nuclear umbrella…that’s absurd.

[WuWei]

What advantage?

Nuclear umbrella? What the hell are you talking about? We can nuke any place on this planet in a couple of hours.

[Joanne]

Especially after reading Trump’s slobbering statements about a brutal dictator. And does anyone know if Kim has said anything publicly about Trump since he left Singapore?

[WuWei]

Did Obama?

[TommyLucchese]

Trump giving away the store for, uh, virtually nothing?

[WuWei]

Did he?

Where is that in the document?

[conan]

I guess you didn’t read your own article.

Back in 1998, Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, was barred from visiting three Michigan prisons to probe sexual misconduct against women prisoners.

Have a nice day.

[WuWei]

They were guilty.

[calirepub]

@JayJay

Sorry…it’s difficult to tell anymore…

apologies accepted. But I do understand how it’s hard to tell nowadays.

[conan]

No he didn’t.

He was advised too by his own party no less.

[WuWei]

Those exercises, intended provocations, can be turned back on with a phone call.

We’ve been at war in A-stan for almost 20 years, you really think they need to practice?

[conan]

What store did he give away again?

[sikofit]

@conan

We are not giving up our nuclear umbrella…that’s absurd.

What do you think “complete denuclearization of the Korean Penensula” means and why do you think the North Koreans insisted on that language?

[NebraskaFootball]

@Joanne

@NebraskaFootball

Exactly. The threat of death for not only them, but for their family and their extended family as well. This is one of the most brutal regimes in modern history. And Trump is waxing poetically like they are being led by some savior, and are all just so lucky to have Kim at the helm. What in the world is he doing here? This is accomplishing nothing for us. Literally nothing for America, or our objectives.

You are right that this is accomplishing nothing for us, plus it greatly dishonors the people of NK who are suffering and have even died at the hands of a horrible regime. What I really can’t determine is if Trump really believes the ■■■■ he said in these interviews or if Kim was smart enough to know that any time you flatter Trump he returns the favor, no matter how awful a person he obviously is?

I went to bed last night trying to be optimistic and hopeful that maybe some good would come of this. But reading these statements makes me think Kim is now laughing his ass off.

Anyway, I think this blogger is right:

He’s the overseer in a nation of slaves. He’s Stalin without an empire. It’s atrocious to lie for him this way, even as a strategic matter of trying to butter him up. And it’s gratuitous. Kim’s not going to refuse to meet Trump again if POTUS had said something anodyne like, “Our conversation went well, he seemed interested in liberalization, we agreed to keep talking.” He had nicer things to say about the dear leader of North Korea this morning than he had to say about the prime minister of Canada this weekend. It’s not that the NorKs will use his words as propaganda; as I say, that doesn’t matter. It’s that it dishonors the people who have suffered under the regime. It’s on the spectrum of Holocaust denial: When you cover for Kim, even for your own strategic reasons, you become a tiny bit complicit. (What the hell does “he’s doing what he’s seen done” mean? We can’t expect Kim to stop committing crimes against humanity because, hey, that’s how he was raised?) There was no reason for Trump to go this far, particularly when he got nothing meaningful on nukes in return.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/12/reboot-u-s-nk-relations-good-slobbering-kim-jong-un-baaaaad/

Nails it completely.

[WuWei]

No? Ok then.

[TommyLucchese]

He didn’t even make the first phone call to turn them off. He’s talking out of his ass like usual.

[TommyLucchese]

He gave the North Koreans what they’ve wanted since the Eisenhower Administration. He got. . .just about nothing.

[sikofit]

@WuWei

Did he?

He did

President Donald Trump says he will be ending joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea.

Trump made the announcement Tuesday at a news conference in Singapore after his historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

[conan]

We don’t have nuclear weapons on Korean peninsula…if my memory serves me correct we pulled them out in early 90’s.

My God…what is it with you people?