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Is a gullible Donald Trump being taken for a ride by North Korea?
Experts on the challenge of North Korea diplomacy largely agree that Trump has put himself in a terrible position
It seems like ages ago when political leaders were seriously talking about President Donald Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize. In light of North Korea's suspension of talks with South Korea over the Max Thunder aerial drills, and national security adviser John Bolton's comparison of upcoming talks with North Korea to those undertaken with Libya in 2003, the question is now twofold: Will the proposed summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un happen at all? Or are the North Koreans simply taking Trump for a ride.
"I'll begin with the caveat that most everybody would make," said Tony Arend, a professor and dean in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in an interview with Salon. "That is, we don't fully understand what's in the mind of Kim Jong-un on a variety of issues and we're always trying to get more intelligence.
"That having been said, my perception is that he is feeling that he has gotten a lot of recognition from the United States," Arend continued. "He's gotten the president of the United States to agree to a summit to discuss issues on the [Korean] peninsula, and I think he's pushing to see how much he can get from the United States in the way of concessions. So he perceives himself to be in a position of strength."
f the Trump administration "seems so invested in a deal," Arend went on, Kim might be eager to see what further concessions it is willing to grant. "So I see him testing the waters and pushing the United States."
His views were largely shared by Gordon Chang, a Daily Beast columnist and author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World."
"North Korea has talked about John Bolton and his 'hostile attitudes,' as they put it," Chang told Salon, adding that he doubted Bolton's comments about the "Libyan model" played a major role, since those were made during a "Face the Nation" interview in late April. "After that, the North Koreans released the three Americans, so it's unlikely that Bolton was the motivating factor," Chang said. "I think there must have been something else that got the North Koreans upset."
Chang then speculated that one factor could well have been Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's offer to take North Korea of the official U.S. list of "state sponsors of terrorism" if the Kim regime hands over five nuclear devices. "That's much closer in time to North Korea's statement," he said, "and it also corresponds with something that North Korea said in that statement ... is about compensation for giving up their most destructive weapons."
"There are things that the North Korean aren't saying," Chang said. "I think they're using Bolton as an excuse."
Ankit Panda, adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, told Salon that North Korea may also have concerns about whether recent American rhetoric and foreign policy actions — particularly Bolton's comments and the South Korean aerial tests — reflected a lack of seriousness about the proposed diplomatic talks.
One interpretation Panda offered was that the North Koreans "effectively thought the U.S. wasn't being serious, was running sort of an arrogant victory lap before the talks had taken place, and was still setting up complete denuclearization as the benchmark. So they put out a statement saying that we can't really meet on the basis of that because we're not going to give up our nuclear weapons.
"None of this is surprising to people who have been watching the Korean peninsula for a long time," Panda concluded. "North Korea has taken a similar approach to talks with the United States before, but the Trump administration, either willfully or by accident, simply hasn't paying attention to the details."
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https://www.salon.com/2018/05/17/is-...y-north-korea/
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AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
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Bourbon (05-18-2018), christiefan915 (05-18-2018), Cypress (05-18-2018), Guno צְבִי (05-18-2018), kudzu (05-18-2018), Phantasmal (05-18-2018), signalmankenneth (05-18-2018), ThatOwlWoman (05-18-2018)
Nice work, chap.
Pissing people off indeed. Ripping up America's internationally-sanctioned nuclear agreement with Iran, right before sitting down at the table with North Korea was a stroke of "genius"! I am pretty sure only Trump would have thought of that idea.
I have always thought Trump's real interests and affinity lay in selling frozen steaks and banging prostitutes. I really do not think sober and deliberative negotiations with hardened communist leaders is in his skill set.
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Guno צְבִי (05-18-2018), kudzu (05-18-2018), Phantasmal (05-18-2018), ThatOwlWoman (05-18-2018)
Trump derangement syndrome makes me have bad grammar?
Wow, you are a comedic genius! You totally smoked me, and that is some funny shit, right there!
LOL'ing at your own joke is normally off-the-charts lame, but it this case I can't blame you...because you scored comedy gold!
Have you considered a career as professional comedian?
kudzu (05-24-2018), Phantasmal (05-18-2018)
Donald Trump could Fuck their Wife's, Mothers and Daughters in the Middle of 5th Avenue and wouldn't loose a Supporter.
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
Guno צְבִי (05-18-2018)
Trump/Bolton were convinced threats would make Kim give up his nuclear program . Kim spent the countries wealth to get it because they saw that the US is far more unlikely to attack a country with them. And Trump was stupid enough to think they would just give them up . They believe it is what keep the country safe and Kim alive and in power. Trump is so used to bullying, that he thinks it works everywhere. Bolton is a PNAC, neocon who wants war with North Korea and Iran. This can get very ugly.
Guno צְבִי (05-18-2018)
there goes Trumps Nobel. He can still get a Pulitzer for his tweeting.
Holy smoke, I have blown a lot of calls.
But my thread here was very prescient.
I wish I was as good at predicting Super Bowls!
kudzu (05-24-2018)
Cypress (05-24-2018)
Not gullible at all. He did what he said he'd do.
Trump never, ever said that any meeting with Kim is a 100% certainty. He has said for 2 years if they were in a meeting and it didn't look good for U.S. interests, he'd walk. He also said that if he did not believe that a deal with Kim would bear fruit, he would not engage in a meeting in the first place. It's up to Kim to want to move HIS country into a peaceful prosperous future or NOT. The door is open.
We'll see in the next few weeks if Kim really got rid of his nuke projects or not. Over the years the U.S. has tried diplomacy and now a more direct approach. Kim's gonna do what Kim's gonna do.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
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