Regrettable!

[Controlled Opposition]

Wait, so our only two choices are:

1) Start a nuclear war with NK
2) Trust the judgment and skill of dim witted, arrogant, uninformed, and self-centered orange con man.

3) Let North and South Korea work out their differences.

[Darth Omar]

3) Let North and South Korea work out their differences.

I might have missed it, but Trump hasn’t been Tweeting about the rhetoric coming out of NK. Which is uncharacteristic of him.

He may be standing aside to see if the two Koreas unite.

[Cancel 2020.1]

Legitimacy? so what? what good does that do?
You can't eat it or sell it, or trade it.
NK is still marginalized -do you see anyone saying "Oh boy kim is "legitimate - let deal with him"

It's the status quo, except without the war rhetoric ( and recall Obama warned Trump on NK as a flash point)

It's not the smashing success so far ( I warned everyone it could be a stall) -but it's far from a "failure"
as testing is halted,and the threat of war greatly reduced.

You might want to check your motivations that you are so quick to call it a "failure' - it's not

So, you have no idea how legitimacy & being seen as an equal w/ the American leader on the world stage could benefit Kim's grip on power internally?

That is all Kim wanted out of the meeting, and he got it. Trump blew it.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Nobody cares?

The MAGGATs will be along soon; takes a while to gather up the Fox-approved talking points and rebuttals.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Trump should have just gone to war ..NK is still an existential threat..lets attack them instead of trying diplomacy

Sure.... let's just kill a few million ppl so Trump can feel good about himself again, and you can feel good for supporting the most corrupt, inept, and venial thing to ever occupy our White House.

Seriously. WTF is wrong with you people?

[ThatOwlWoman]

3) Let North and South Korea work out their differences.

Thank you.

[Darth Omar]

So, you have no idea how legitimacy & being seen as an equal w/ the American leader on the world stage could benefit Kim's grip on power internally?

That is all Kim wanted out of the meeting, and he got it. Trump blew it.

That would be a transient benefit, at best.

Kim can’t power his military on something as ethereal as legitimacy—he needs fuel oil for that. And his people need to eat.

All Trump needs to do is turn the screws and ‘legitimacy’ is out the window. A simple thing like restarting war games would do it. Kim hates that for a reason.

I know The Resistance wants to declare it a failure, but the Fat Lady has yet to sing.

[Legion]

It’s a media buzz word that has no practical meaning in foreign policy terms.

Are you suggesting that little Thingy is engaging in hysterics?

[Legion]

Sure.... let's just kill a few million ppl so Trump can feel good about himself again, and you can feel good for supporting the most corrupt, inept, and venial thing to ever occupy our White House.

I've repented for supporting Obama.

[Legion]

Could always assassinate Lil Kim. Put some Vaseline on his step stool. Make it look like an accident........

Careful, Skipper. Using "the words "Vaseline" and "stool" in the same sentence is fraught with all kinds of opportunities for undue liberal excitement misinterpretation, I think.

[Cypress]

No one could have predicted.
Oh, except me an almost every other liberal on this forum.

North Korea calls U.S. attitude toward talks ‘gangster-like’ and ‘cancerous,’ rejecting Pompeo’s assessment

OKYO — In a sharp signal that denuclearization negotiations with North Korea will be drawn out and difficult, Pyongyang on Saturday lambasted the U.S. stance as regrettable, gangster-like and cancerous, directly contradicting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s rosy assessment that his two days of talks had been “productive.”

A harsh statement from an unnamed spokesman for the Foreign Ministry was carried on the state-run Korea Central News Agency just hours after Pompeo left Pyongyang on Saturday and told reporters that significant progress had been made “in every element” of what he characterized as “good-faith negotiations.” Pyongyang crushed that appraisal, saying the United States had betrayed the spirit of the June 12 Singapore summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.98f6774ae666

[Rune]

Kim got what he wanted then dumped Trump.

No reach around?

[Rune]

What did he want?

To be on the same world stage as Trump.

[Rune]

Legitimacy? so what? what good does that do?
You can't eat it or sell it, or trade it.
NK is still marginalized -do you see anyone saying "Oh boy kim is "legitimate - let deal with him"

It's the status quo, except without the war rhetoric ( and recall Obama warned Trump on NK as a flash point)

It's not the smashing success so far ( I warned everyone it could be a stall) -but it's far from a "failure"
as testing is halted,and the threat of war greatly reduced.

You might want to check your motivations that you are so quick to call it a "failure' - it's not

It is a collosal failure, Trump legitimized a terrorist slave state's leader, the rest of the world laughed at us and how are we any safer?
Research only stopped because the idiots destabilized the mountain research center, and the Chinese had to warn them at that.

[dukkha]

It is a collosal failure, Trump legitimized a terrorist slave state's leader, the rest of the world laughed at us and how are we any safer?
Research only stopped because the idiots destabilized the mountain research center, and the Chinese had to warn them at that.

that was the blast test facility, not the"research center". They quit engine testing and field testing (ICBM).
Learn something before you run your usual ignorant mouth

How are we any safer?? are you fucking that stupid?? (yes-rhetorical)
. we were issuing ultimatums as NK was firing missiles over Japan and threatened Guam..

FFS. get a clue