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Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump, official says

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Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump (update will meet in May)

South Korea is expected to announce Thursday night that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is extending an invitation to meet with President Trump, a senior U.S. official revealed to Fox News.

Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump, official says | Fox News

A historic day indeed if Trump meets with Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un may have met his match and maybe waving the white flag to a superior opponent in Trump. My oh my, Trump is doing something his predecessor couldn't.
 
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It looks like they will meet in May.

WOW. And Kim Jong Un is denuclearizing his country.
 
That would be big.
 
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Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump, official says | Fox News

A historic day indeed if Trump meets with Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un may have met his match and maybe waving the white flag to a superior opponent in Trump. My oh my, Trump is doing something his predecessor couldn't.
I think you are getting way too ahead of yourself.

"Kim Jong Un may have met his match" in narcissism.

On substance, there is no indication as to what the topics will be. You also are absurdly wrong that Kim Jong Un is "waving the white flag." He's not going to give up nukes that give NK leverage.
 
I think it's a smart move on his part, it doesn't allow Trump any room to blame him unless he makes stupidly crazy (trump like) demands. And if he does he can just say, I didn't ask for anything that Trump didn't ask for.
 
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I think you are getting way too ahead of yourself.

"Kim Jong Un may have met his match" in narcissism.

On substance, there is no indication as to what the topics will be. You also are absurdly wrong that Kim Jong Un is "waving the white flag." He's not going to give up nukes that give NK leverage.

Little doubt South Korea has been putting pressure on the US to do something....Kim and North Korea have long sought to reduce the US Military's presence in South Korea....For any "deal" to take place that would have to be on the table
 
There is no indication that either the State Department or the Defense Department were privy to these discussions on whether or not to accept the offer. In fact, Tillerson gave a very cautious statement about even the theoretical concept of talks or negotiations just a few hours ago.

This is why it’s good to actually have a strong diplomatic arm. You don’t have to give North Korea a massive propaganda victory and a signal to other rogue states to continue doing what they are doing and they may find themselves equals with the U.S.

Have your cabinet and ambassadors do this, not the President.


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Re: Kim Jong Un extending invitation to meet with Trump (update will meet in May)

On substance, there is no indication as to what the topics will be. You also are absurdly wrong that Kim Jong Un is "waving the white flag." He's not going to give up nukes that give NK leverage.

Yeah, that won’t happen. This will perhaps delay things, make it less likely the U.S. does anything stupid to militarily intervene, but it will do nothing for denuclearization hopes.

If anything, this may make things more attractive for other states weighing whether to proceed with their programs, because now the President is agreeing to meet with someone that the U.S. has traditionally made off limits to NPT violators.



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Yeah, that won’t happen. This will perhaps delay things, make it less likely the U.S. does anything stupid to militarily intervene, but it will do nothing for denuclearization hopes.

If anything, this may make things more attractive for other states weighing whether to proceed with their programs, because now the President is agreeing to meet with someone that the U.S. has traditionally made off limits to NPT violators.



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Ok, so Kim's playing Trump for a sucker, what do you think Trump is expecting to happen? Because I've been reading that they're meeting to discuss N. Korea denuclearizing.
 
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I may be wrong but I don't believe NK from il to un has ever kept their side of the deal, bargain, negotiated settlement or whatever, so I'm a sit back and wait and see.
 
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Ok, so Kim's playing Trump for a sucker, what do you think Trump is expecting to happen? Because I've been reading that they're meeting to discuss N. Korea denuclearizing.
I don't know what Trump is expecting. What we do know, thus far, is it seems to be a hasty decision made without consultation with the Defense and State Departments and that we still don't have the diplomats in place we must have.

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I will give credit where credit is due if this pans out the way it's cracked up to be. If so, then meeting crazy with even more crazy may have actually worked. A lot of it also depends on the continuing unofficial back channel negotiations that have been going on in New York City for the past twenty years or more.

The North Korean diplomats in New York “don’t engage in propaganda, they don’t bang on the table, they don’t engage in threats.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-korea-new-york-channel_us_59de4babe4b0eb18af05877d
 
You might want to wait until a deal is actually made before you get all giddy.
Maybe Kim wants to offer a free-trade treaty. Wouldn't that be nice?

This is history in the making. You have peace talks going on with Kim Jong un coming to Mar a-Lago. This is the first time ever Nk has actually shown signs of wanting to join the international community.
 
It looks like they will meet in May.

WOW. And Kim Jong Un is denuclearizing his country.

Uh, no.
Look what a handful of nukes and a couple missile tests have already got him. The President of the United States is coming to talk to him. You think that kind of leverage will be given up for nothing? Hell, Kim's gonna be like a god in North Korea when he presents President Trump to his cheering mobs.
 
This is history in the making. You have peace talks going on with Kim Jong un coming to Mar a-Lago. This is the first time ever Nk has actually shown signs of wanting to join the international community.

Mar Lago?.....Yeah sure...Are you ScareMucci?....trump the freakin greatest ever!
 
Uh, no.
Look what a handful of nukes and a couple missile tests have already got him. The President of the United States is coming to talk to him. You think that kind of leverage will be given up for nothing? Hell, Kim's gonna be like a god in North Korea when he presents President Trump to his cheering mobs.

I hear Kim is very sick from syphilis, gonorrhea, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Trust me. Kim is no god. His citizens hate him.
 
I hear Kim is very sick from syphilis, gonorrhea, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Trust me. Kim is no god. His citizens hate him.

You hear that, do you? From who?
 
You hear that, do you? From who?

KIM Jong-un could be riddled with syphilis, diabetes, gout and completed plastic surgery to look fatter, US spies have claimed.

An intelligence source told Fox News he is battling the medical and psychological issues in a drastic bid to become as popular as his grandfather, Kim Il Song.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5760373/kim-jong-un-health-diabetes-std-north-korea-fat/

Kim Jong un may have kidney failure as well. It is not normal for a man to balloon up from 200 to 300 pounds just like that. When you look at pictures of him as a kid he was very skinny. I read he regularly went on hunger strikes when his mom wouldn't allow him to play basketball.
 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5760373/kim-jong-un-health-diabetes-std-north-korea-fat/

Kim Jong un may have kidney failure as well. It is not normal for a man to balloon up from 200 to 300 pounds just like that. When you look at pictures of him as a kid he was very skinny. I read he regularly went on hunger strikes when his mom wouldn't allow him to play basketball.

The Sun? Are you serious? That paper invents sensational stories. They've actually set up 'sting-type' operations and then lied about the identities of key players.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)

You might as well get your information from The News Of The World.
 
At last count recently, there have been three ships loaded with coal from North Korea and off loaded in Russian ports onto other ships bound for South korea and Japan and China in violation of United Nations and United States imposed sanctions. Petroleum sanction have also been met with resistence from China and Russia. Seems to me that there are more than two player countries in this equation. Furthermore Russia has a vested interest in making this presidenty look good. Can we really credit "Fire and Fury like the world has never seen" with all the credit? Or any of it for that matter? Aside from the economic interest mentioned above let's not forget, Mueller is getting closer to the truth, which not only includes Trump inner circle but also 13 Russians and the Son In Law of a Russian Oligarch who is one of Putin's close allys. Kim Jong Un fig leaf has certainly helped us to look in another direction. Hasn't it?:peace:peace:peace
 
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They've delayed things under former Presidents.


Kim apparently said he'll "talk" about denuclearization. Talk about. And people wet themselves in joyous praise.

Kim also said he won't test more ICBMs for a bit. And? He already tested them. Time to develop better designs...





I really hope I'm wrong, but I bet I'm right: Kim is playing Trump because he knows Trump's desire to look good trumps just about everything else in his little reality which, sadly, is also ours now.
 
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