Alex Christoforou
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RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the media reaction to US President Trump’s historic entrance into the North Korean side of the DMZ. Fox’s Tucker Carlson was at the event with the US delegation accompanying President Trump.
Trump became the first sitting American president to ever step foot in North Korea, and while Carlson was there covering (and maybe even advising) the President, missing from the historic diplomatic moment was uber war hawk, national security adviser John Bolton.
Bolton was dispatched to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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The Duran Quick Take: Episode 224. RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the media reaction to US President Trump’s historic entrance into the North Korean side of the DMZ. Fox’s Tucker Carlson was at the event with the US delegation accompanying President Trump.
A host of Democratic party hopefuls for the presidency have taken turns denouncing President Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as a “photo op,” while slamming Trump for cosying up to the “ruthless dictator.”
After scheduling an impromptu meeting via Twitter, Trump met Kim at the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday. The leaders shook hands and Trump became the first sitting US president to cross the border into the North.
The historic moment was praised by some observers – including Pope Francis and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, but Trump’s Democratic rivals savaged him for so casually extending the olive branch to Kim.
“Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator,” tweeted Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. A spokesman for former vice president Joe Biden accused Trump of “coddling” Kim, a “dictator” who threatens US national security.
Elizabeth Warren on Twitter: “Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator. Instead, we should be dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy that promotes US security, defends our allies, and upholds human rights. https://t.co/9ROpNfjYbY / Twitter”
Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator. Instead, we should be dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy that promotes US security, defends our allies, and upholds human rights. https://t.co/9ROpNfjYbY
Senators Bernie Sanders (Vermont) and Kamala Harris (California) both called the meeting a “photo opportunity,” while former Housing Secretary Julian Castro and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke both accused Trump of raising Kim’s standing on the world stage, with no discernible progress towards peace in return.
“I have no problem with him sitting down with Kim Jong-un in North Korea or anyplace else,” Sanders told ABC’s This Week. “But…what’s going to happen tomorrow and the next day? If we’re going to bring peace to this world, we need a strong State Department. We need to move forward diplomatically not just do photo opportunities.”
Chuck Schumer on Twitter: “President @realDonaldTrump: This is unacceptable. Why are you backing down again on China?Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade.This will dramatically undercut our ability to change China’s unfair trade practices. https://t.co/B99BbZ6LDG / Twitter”
President @realDonaldTrump: This is unacceptable. Why are you backing down again on China?Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade.This will dramatically undercut our ability to change China’s unfair trade practices. https://t.co/B99BbZ6LDG
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union that achieving peace with North Korea will not be “as easy as just going and bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door.”
Indeed, progress towards peace has been stalled for quite some time. While Trump and Kim ended last year’s bilateral summit in Singapore with a vague commitment by Kim to denuclearize in exchange for sanctions relief, no discernible progress has yet been made on that front.
Richard Blumenthal on Twitter: “Vague talk about talks while Kim continues to develop nuclear warheads & missiles? Seems like this gigantic PR stunt entrenches & embellishes authoritarian rule without any real, meaningful strategy for denuclearization. / Twitter”
Vague talk about talks while Kim continues to develop nuclear warheads & missiles? Seems like this gigantic PR stunt entrenches & embellishes authoritarian rule without any real, meaningful strategy for denuclearization.
The relationship further soured this February, when Trump walked out of a second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, calling Kim’s demands for full sanctions relief untenable. Still, Trump has remained open to further negotiations with Pyongyang. After Kim’s military test-fired a bevy of short-range missiles last month, the president contradicted his own national security adviser John Bolton, who’d said the tests violated a UN resolution. Trump dismissed Bolton’s concern, saying the launch was “very standard.”
Channel 4 News on Twitter: “”What is it with your cosiness with some of these dictators and autocrats at these summits?” President Trump responds to a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta by saying “I get along with everybody…I get along with President Putin. I get along with Mohammad from Saudi Arabia.” pic.twitter.com/XTzGch646d / Twitter”
“What is it with your cosiness with some of these dictators and autocrats at these summits?” President Trump responds to a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta by saying “I get along with everybody…I get along with President Putin. I get along with Mohammad from Saudi Arabia.” pic.twitter.com/XTzGch646d
Mohammed bin Salman, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the weekend’s G20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
“I get along with everybody, except you people actually,” Trump responded, gesturing to the press in the room.
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The US doesn’t really have a standpoint to be so upset at the horrible murder of Kashoggi all while dismembering Julian Assange.
Free Julian Assange.
All official US emotions are fake. Especially outrage.
Straight-faced indignation is my favorite. Always good for a laugh.
John looks… diminished. I look forward to the day we see him, and all his like, erased.
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Blumenthal needs reminding that his Tweedle Dee/Tweedle Dum state, USrael, the only remaining Narco-Terrorist Pirate Duopoly on the planet, not only sequesters and conceals nukes, and not only freely advocates their use, but has actually used them… twice.
I would ‘remind’ him of that with a large club if I could.
Great episode guys. I had a good laugh 🙂
Good, maybe they can introduce Bolton to Buzkashi, firsthand. I’ve heard it requires a goat but an anorexic walrus will do.
STOP picking on North Korea. Since the end of WW 2 the US hasn’t exactly been the shining example of honesty, integrity…quite the contrary…wars all over the globe. NK would do well in distancing itself from Trump and the US – how can anyone rely on two-forked tongue person and promises that mean absolutely nothing.
We can do without Peter’s obligatory Jewish propaganda spiel about the “evil wicked Nazi regime that (((we))) had to defeat in order to impose a Rothschilds central bank upon the German people once again.
Can we not give the Hollow Hoax a pass just once in a while….???