- Joined
- Dec 3, 2017
- Messages
- 26,290
- Reaction score
- 16,771
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Progressive
Is Trump ready for talks with North Korea? - BBC News
Never before has a US president prepared for a summit of this importance - with so few people and in such a short time. What could possibly go wrong?
President Donald Trump is planning to meet Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, by the end of May. The meeting - if it takes place - would be unprecedented: no US president serving in office has ever negotiated directly with a North Korean leader.
It's a dramatic shift in policy - technically the two countries are still at war. The Korean War ended in 1953 not with a peace treaty, but an armistice.
==================================================================
I'm not optimistic. Trump has an alarming tendency not to listen to advisers & to say the first thing that pops into his head, usually the last thing the last person in his office said before leaving. And Kim will be playing hardball. He'll ask for the sun, moon & stars before agreeing to scrap his nukes & missiles. He'll likely want U.S. troops out of SK. How will Trump respond to that?
Never before has a US president prepared for a summit of this importance - with so few people and in such a short time. What could possibly go wrong?
President Donald Trump is planning to meet Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, by the end of May. The meeting - if it takes place - would be unprecedented: no US president serving in office has ever negotiated directly with a North Korean leader.
It's a dramatic shift in policy - technically the two countries are still at war. The Korean War ended in 1953 not with a peace treaty, but an armistice.
==================================================================
I'm not optimistic. Trump has an alarming tendency not to listen to advisers & to say the first thing that pops into his head, usually the last thing the last person in his office said before leaving. And Kim will be playing hardball. He'll ask for the sun, moon & stars before agreeing to scrap his nukes & missiles. He'll likely want U.S. troops out of SK. How will Trump respond to that?