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Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com)
President Donald Trump has cancelled his much anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that was scheduled to take place in Singapore on June 12, he announced moments ago. In a letter to Kim, the president said; "I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place." He added, "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
and then there is Kim Jong Un to worry about . . .
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It wasn't Trump, it was Pence and Pompeo who threatened North Korea with a Libyan outcome.
These people are neophytes on the world stage and it shows.
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
It wasn't Trump, it was Pence and Pompeo who threatened North Korea with a Libyan outcome.
A distinction without a difference. Trump wants to play emperor then he gets to take responsibility for what happens on his watch too. Not just the bits he likes.
in much the same I cancel dates with hot girls I met on the street.
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Pulls out of Paris. Messes up with Iran. Get's his ass handed to him by Russians in Syria. NK summit fails... that completes my line across the middle.
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If the threat of imminent death due to nuclear war doesn't trigger your "things I care about" alarm, then you are a special kind of nerd. Maybe rephrasing of the headline would help:
"Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. Major ISPs In The USA At Risk Due To Nuclear Bombardment."
Does that help?
"I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger an open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter to serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place."
This part was written in a calm but stern manner.
What we get then is
"You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
This is written with how we know he writes. So I think that he indeed added this as he did not understand that the first part already said the same thing, but in a much more diplomatic wording.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The comments were pretty harsh.
Compared to the US saying that we were going to use "the Libya model"?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Trump is just saying this to save face because he fucked up putting a hell of a feather in his cap. He screwed the pooch on his demands, especially since we're showing a clear pattern of overthrowing any leader who appeases us.
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What else exactly does Trump think he's going to get? The North Koreans already offered unilateral nuclear disarmament and negotiations on reunification with South Korea. That's basically everything that matters.
Spin this as him being smart all you want, but in reality it's him throwing away the best chance at peace on the Korean peninsula in history because his ego is so big that he couldn't deal with the North Koreans legitimately pointing out that telling them Kim Jong Un would end up dead like Gaddaffi isn't a smart move.
Right now the whole world sees the North Koreans having said all the right things, and made all the right moves, and the Americans saying all the stupid things, and making all the wrong moves. The fact is, even if this was just a political game or a negotiating tactic, American has already lost as it's now the country that blew it with North Korean peace talks.
Yes, including one where Gadaffi was overthrown and eventually murdered. Making threats (or just using such ridiculously clumsy language during such a critical phase of diplomacy) is pathetic. It's amateur hour in the White House apparently.
The US never agreed to the Iran deal. And Iran never signed the deal anyway, so...
What's that in the top left corner then?
And voting for UN security council resolution 2231 was a strange way of showing that you never agreed with the deal. You can complain about the kindergarten you call congress refusing to support anything and everything Obama did all you like, at the UN, we expect you to send qualified adults that can make decisions befitting their position within your administration.
It's in trumps style of negotiation. He's always going to go for the BEST deal that he can get, and this is not at all out of the ordinary for Trump.
Back when it was first announced, Scott adams almost immediately said "expect one of them, probably trump, to walk away at least once before any actual negotiations take place".
Fun to see these types of negotiating dynamics playing out on the world stage.
Did Adams also predict that Trump's newly chosen underling would "accidentally" scuttle the negotiations? (Causing Trump a loss of face in the process)
Trump isn't the one calling the shots here, the South Koreans arranged the summit they had zero expectation of succeeding because they didn't want Trump to start a war instead, and North Korea agreed to the summit because they wanted the photo op with the US President and all the flowery praise that Trump has been giving them the past few weeks (plus sanction relief if they could weasel it).
But Bolton wanted the summit to go away because North Korea is a country, and he likes invading countries. And so the summit that would never accomplish anything is at least temporarily dead and the really unlikely stupid war is slightly more likely and still just as stupid.
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All he has to do is look at Libya and Iraq to conclude he'd have to be suicidal to trust the US.
We've already demonstrated that our country won't honor our President's promises longer than his term. With DJT, promises don't seem to last that long. I hear we'll see his taxes if he gets the nomination.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Don't forget that John Bolton is there now, too. The White House is full of dangerous, hypocritical lunatics. It's worse than under George W. Bush, and he had mighty bad advisers.
Had the meeting gone as scheduled, he would have said it was brilliant and just as Trump had planned. Adams worships the ground that Trump walks upon and has convinced himself that all democrats are demon scum. Trump is incapable of doing any wrong in Adams' eyes.
Coincidentally, remember when Dilbert was last funny? It was a fair bit before the 2016 elections. Now it's just Mallard Fillmore in an office; often forgetting the punch lines as well.
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Romney was an up-tight and out-of-touch sellout to the rich (pretty much the same as most Republican nominees), but "the Left" never called him the next Hitler. I dare you to find any kind of meaningful consensus that shows otherwise.
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That's not what's going on.
Kim and his advisers came to the conclusion that Trump and his advisers were looking for an occasion for a limited war - some bombing campaign - somewhere in the world. Ideally, the campaign would take place before the mid term elections. The US military was tasked to look into either bombing some nuclear facilities in NK or bombing some nuclear facilities in Iran. Kim and his advisers came to this conclusion and quickly contacted SK to prevent this from happening, because they know very well that the NK could not possibly defend their territory at all and judge that Trump is crazy enough to not care about possible consequences for South Korea.
Moon came to the same conclusion and quickly arranged this initiative together with Kim to prevent the worst from happening. Bear in mind that NK could shell Seoul, population 10 million, plus another 10 million in the area, and even if the artillery is quickly taken care of by air superiority, the death toll would be massive. At the same time Moon is under serious pressure from the US, so he had to include the US despite the fact that Trump is considered a negative factor by both parties. (Trump is considered an annoyance and hard to deal with by essentially every politician in the world, including Moon and Kim, of course.)
Here is what's going to happen: NK and SK will continue with peace talks and friendship initiatives no matter what the US does, for at least as long as Trump is in charge. Neither of them wants war, and even the smallest military action would make an escalation almost unavoidable in the current situation.
The comments were pretty harsh. That sort of behavior isn't tolerated, and they are letting them know that.
You need to be far more specific considering the harsh rhetoric coming from both sides. I assume you mean the US comments were harsh, since they essentially insinuated they want Kim Jong Un deposed and killed in the streets. North Korea's responses were quite tame by comparison.
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From what I've been reading, Trump is more interested in the labia plan.
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Bill Maher comparing the Romeny campaign to the last days of Nazi Germany? http://thehill.com/video/campa...
Did you even read that or watch the interview? Bill Maher is comparing the end of the republican campaign to the last days of Nazi Germany -- basically saying that they didn't realize or admit that they were going to lose until the very last days of the election. There is absolutely no comparison between Romney and Hitler in terms of personality, politics, ideals, or anything else.
Besides all that, Maher is a single comedian. He is hardly a consensus for "the Left". Try again.
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No, it isn't - what is the Libya Model? The Lybia model isn't surround yourself with female body guards, torture your citizens, and let your kids kill your country's citizens without restraint. Libya was hell on earth, the locals brought down the government and the US helped.
But that isn't what Bolton was referring to - Libya Model is to demand absolute, verified shutdown of nuclear development, no exceptions.
THAT is the Libyan Model any sane person would understand Bolton was talking about.
Bolton was referring to the need to build trust and verify any denuclearization efforts when he brought up Libya in a CBS interview last month. He didn’t imply, publicly at least, that the “Libya model” would include regime change in North Korea.
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