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From Global News
U.S. President Donald Trump insists that talks with North Korea “going well” despite reports Kim Jong Un’s regime is continuing with its nuclear weapons program.
On Tuesday, the president slammed “fake news” and claimed that “if not for me, we would now be at war with North Korea!”
READ MORE: North Korea’s missile program was expanding as Trump met with Kim
“Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months,” Trump tweeted.
“All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!”
COMMENT:-
I have a bit of trouble with seeing how "might fail" and "going well" can be used by the same person to describe the same thing.
BUT, I completely agree that "if it weren't for (him)" the US might well be at war with the DPRK. After all, Mr. Trump hasn't yet attacked the DPRK and the leadership of the DPRK is well aware of the "If we attack the US (or anyone else) then the US will turn out country into a giant, self-illuminated, glass paved, parking lot and our friends in the PRC won't do diddly-squat about it." calculus.
PS - If the US were to attack the DPRK, then there is next to no chance that the PRC would use nuclear weapons against the United States of America (or any of its possessions). That, of course, doesn't rule out "area denial" use of nuclear weapons to hinder the staging of US (and/or allied) troops for an assault on the DPRK.
Donald Trump says North Korea talks ‘going well,’ U.S. ‘would now be at war’ if it weren’t for him
U.S. President Donald Trump insists that talks with North Korea “going well” despite reports Kim Jong Un’s regime is continuing with its nuclear weapons program.
On Tuesday, the president slammed “fake news” and claimed that “if not for me, we would now be at war with North Korea!”
READ MORE: North Korea’s missile program was expanding as Trump met with Kim
“Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months,” Trump tweeted.
“All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!”
COMMENT:-
I have a bit of trouble with seeing how "might fail" and "going well" can be used by the same person to describe the same thing.
BUT, I completely agree that "if it weren't for (him)" the US might well be at war with the DPRK. After all, Mr. Trump hasn't yet attacked the DPRK and the leadership of the DPRK is well aware of the "If we attack the US (or anyone else) then the US will turn out country into a giant, self-illuminated, glass paved, parking lot and our friends in the PRC won't do diddly-squat about it." calculus.
PS - If the US were to attack the DPRK, then there is next to no chance that the PRC would use nuclear weapons against the United States of America (or any of its possessions). That, of course, doesn't rule out "area denial" use of nuclear weapons to hinder the staging of US (and/or allied) troops for an assault on the DPRK.
