Perhaps... but where did/does that lunatic regime get his arms and money to buy/develop arms? How Did North Korea's Missile and Nuclear Tech Get So Good So Fast? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/north-korea-tech/538959/ Five ways North Korea gets money to build nuclear weapons https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/18/how-does-north-korea-get-money-to-build-nuclear-weapons.html
Well... talking to them is a step in the right direction. You can't make a deal if you are having a twitter war measuring the size of your nukes. I have no faith that Trump can get it done. Go ahead Mr President Prove us all wrong.
I’m in favor of talking to anyone. But Trump personally negotiating with Kim is not likely going to end well. Should be the job of SoS. I would suggest start off at SoS level and if and when its final, Trump can fly in to have his moment.
Bunch of zingers and one-liners. Must really be hurting y'all that North Korea is actually considering giving up its nuclear arsenal. Pathetic.
You're naive or misinformed. NK will never give up their nuclear arsenal. It's their lifeline and only thing keeping another country from attacking. They may make an agreement to cease production but that's it.
I tend to agree with Erin Burnett. If Trump achieves denuclearization of NK with a peace deal that reunifies NK with SK, then he will have achieved something that may lead to him being considered a great president. Sure, we are a long ways off and skepticism abounds. But, it would be a major win. This sh_t with NK needs to end. There is no way we are going to war with them as it stands. All this grandstanding bs needs to end. I know there are big issues of trust that are well warranted. So, it is TBD on how serious Kim is about this or if he is just trying to prove himself an equal to a US president by suckering him into a fruitless meeting.
"We're not going to have this meeting take place until we see concrete actions that match the words and the rhetoric of North Korea."
He's not an idiot. He saw what happened to Qaddafi and doesn't want the same fate. The nukes were always about survival and it might have worked.
He.... he really did it. He convinced them to reverse course from decades of international policy. The absolute mad man.
How NK has been able to get as far as it has w its nuclear ambition Russian ships out of Vladivostok evade detection to secretly transport cargo to and from North Korea---generating tens of millions of $$ to the NK Treasury---in violation of international sanctions https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...ussian-help-1175767107803?playlist=associated North Korea’s new missile technology may have Soviet roots Elleman, a senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank, believes that Pyongyang acquired the 1960s Soviet-era missile engine known as the RD-250 within the past two years. With some slight adjustments, Kim Jong Un's government used that engine to successfully launch a medium-range missile and two intercontinental ballistic missiles, he says. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...sile-technology-may-have-soviet-roots-n852231
In all honesty, I blame SK for their appeasement policy as well. They want it both ways—make money from U.S. AND China, co-exist in peace and harmony with NK and seemingly continue to view Japan as more of an existential threat than NK, all the while willfully ignorant to the fact that all sides have their own agenda that conflict with the others’. It’s about time someone gave them a refresher on realpolitik.
