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North Korean Leader Says He Will Suspend Arms Tests, Shut Nuclear Test Site (cnn.com)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced early Saturday morning that the regime no longer needs nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests. Kim said Saturday that "under the proven condition of complete nuclear weapons, we no longer need any nuclear tests, mid-range and intercontinental ballistic rocket tests, and that the nuclear test site in northern area has also completed its mission," state-run KCNA reported Saturday. CNN reports: A North Korea source told CNN that Kim has finally decided to open up a new chapter for his nation.
Kim has committed himself to the path of denuclearization and will now focus solely on economic growth and improving the national economy, the source said. The North Korean leader has realized the best path forward is to normalize relations with other countries, the source added. He is finally being recognized by the international community, and this is a historic, timely opportunity, the source said. The decision to halt nuclear and missile testing comes just one week before the leaders of South and North Korea are due to meet at the demilitarized zone between the two countries. U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed the news, tweeting: "North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site. This is very good news for North Korea and the World - big progress! Look forward to our Summit."
Even the media can't spin this. I may actually see a unified Korea in my lifetime.
Or it could all fall apart. But as far as I can tell, this may actually be within grasp.
After seeing the picture of Kim Jong-Un blushing while posing with Red Velvet I figured, OK, this might be for real, he might really be ready to focus on trade.
Plus, China told him he had to do it; he went to China and they went on the news together, and North Korea had agreed to give up their nuclear program, and China had agreed to remain their ally. Sounds like a good deal to me, right?! Good deal for everybody, actually.
So how do you soften the hearts of the Generals? With kpop. Duh.
Works for me! I'm more of an AoA fan, but I can totally see Red Velvet being better for this mission.
Wasn't there broad speculation from intelligence recently that their test facility had caved in, killing many?
When the history books record peace in korea because of trump.
Trump was the only world leader who could speak Kim's language, and that was what finally convinced them to drop a path they had been on through MANY other U.S. presidents.
This alone makes Trump the greatest president in modern times, greatly eclipsing anything Obama ever did (or even imagined he did).
Now after we clean up Obama's gift of nuclear weapons to Iran, the world may actually be safer for once...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. I call bullshit on Fat Kimmy.
It's a vicious cycle. (1) Blow off a nuke or two, make threats, bluster (2) Get the South and US to negotiate (3) Get food/technical assistance (4) When assistance runs out, go back to (1) We're talking about North Korea -- they have more years' experience with blackmail than the age of the average US official.
And watch the media spin like GE's finest turbines.
Who needs more tests once he has perfected the technology. Now begins production in earnest. Rockets plus payloads. Onward and upward!
'Palestinians', or more accurately, local Arabs, do live in that land. What you are likely describing is them occupying Israel and doing their damndest to reduce Jews to a minority, so that they can get rid of the one Jewish country that is actually the original home of the Jews
It's been 70 years, and everywhere else in the world, when people have been displaced, they settle down in newer countries and assimilate there, rather than carry that grudge across generations. Like Crimean Tatars in Uzbekistan, or Sindhi Hindus in India. Aside from the people in the West Bank or Gaza, there are Palis who left that area to settle in other countries, such as Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, et al. There is no reason why they can't just settle down in those countries, and assimilate into their populations
If nothing else, Trump finally got Democrats to distrust communists ...
Actually, especially given that it came out of the AEI (to be fair, she's a fairly reputable professor at Georgetown), it was pretty light on that, I thought.
It seemed to me to be more about Xi clarifying a few things for Kim. Rephrased in the vernacular, I'm guessing it sounded a lot like, "If you want us to back you up, you're gonna lighten the fuck up, get off your high horse, show us some respect, and play by the rules, which we are listing here for your convenience...". The author posits [emphasis added],
Kim realized that US military options are more likely now than in the past, and that the Chinese were preparing for contingencies that did not involve supporting the North Korean regime.
If the US were to attack North Korea, China would intervene — not in support of North Korea, but rather in support of its own interests and would possibly even collaborate with the Americans.
Makes sense, and the collaboration bit might not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Left unsaid here--but possibly not in Beijing the other week--is that the Chinese do not actually have to wait for the Americans--they can act pre-emptively if they so choose. But that's potentially very disorderly, and China is nearly certain to prefer options that offer continued stability in the region over those that don't.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
he's forgotten how Nixon went to China
You've forgotten the definition of modern it would seem.
Carter got a peace accord in the Middle-East
Wow, just WOW. You are really going to hold up the Middle East as an example of SUCESS?? Just because he got a piece of paper signed while many continued to die there. You must REALLY love paper.
Reagan blew up the debt
But ended the Soviet Union for quite a while in the process, which incidentally Obama helped prosper in recent times.
Bush I conquered Iraq
Now you are talking about modern times, but I wouldn't could anything any Bush did as a success.
I count that one as kind of a wash because he got rid of.a really bad dictator but then Obama again backed out of Iraq and essentially destroyed a tenuous success turning it to failure.
Obama fixed health insurance
We were talking foreign policy... but I love how claim health care in the U.S. is "fixed". Who thinks that exactly?
Obama fixed health insurance and didn't start a war.
Holy shit did you really forget Libya, the worst debacle in modern times that destroyed a country that was slowly modernizing. It will remain a third world nation for the next fifty years thanks to Hillary and Obama - I was planning a trip to Libya before the war there started and now I will not see it in my lifetime.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
NOBODY....wanted that tiny piece of land, of the giant entirety of that area.
A typical Likud lie.
All the thousands of Arab farmers that lived in that area prior to 1945
very much wanted to keep their land, and still deserve proper compensation.