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Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to cross the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, meeting with Kim and promising that big things are in store for the Korean Peninsula.
After briefly crossing into North Korean territory, the two leaders offered some thoughts on the historic moment.
“It’s a great honor to be here. A great honor,” Trump said, adding that “a lot of really positive things are happening” and that there is “tremendous positivity.”
The US president also hailed his “great friendship” with Kim, noting that “we met and we liked each other from day one, and that was very important.”
Kim said that by crossing the DMZ, Trump had demonstrated his desire to “open a new future” regarding North Korea.
Both heads of state met last in February in Hanoi, Vietnam, but the talks were considered a failure and the summit was cut short. Pyongyang claimed that Washington was to blame for the unsuccessful meeting. That said, the two leaders have since maintained an ongoing and apparently amiable written correspondence. Trump has repeatedly praised Kim’s letters, describing the most recent message he received from the North Korean leader as “beautiful.”
While the pair are reportedly on friendly terms, Washington and Pyongyang continue to spar over sanctions relief, which the US insists cannot happen until the hermit state commits to denuclearization.
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Great PR, mates, but one country is still suffering badly from trade sanctions on the civilian sector.
Maybe Trump has promised Kim some relief after he secures a 2nd term?
Any “agreement” made with americans isn’t worth a squirt of piss into a tornado. Just ask the Native Americans, Iraqis, Libyans and Afghanis.
What did you drink yesterday? Vinegar?
Lighten up Bob
One would theoretically like to toast America’s successes in diplomacy with champagne but for these past decades at least, vinegar is the toast of choice.
So long as US dominance and only US dominance has bipartisan support in Washington, Bob Valdez is right.
The neocons would like to install Ivanka as the UN rep. Then she could freely interject her thoughts (so to speak) on the civilian slaughter in the Donbass and Yemen by America and its allies and no one would listen and when she spoke of Syria or Iran, all ears would perk up. The perfect neocon dream.
Yemen I know is a breakaway part of Saudi Arabia that wants to unite with Iran but where’s the Donbass?
Right, all Kim needs to do is kidnap a few dozen American diplomats and hold them until after Trump is re-elected. Now that’s the art of the deal.
THE 2 DICTATORS LOVE EACH OTHER. NORTH KOREANS HAVE NOT EVEN THE RIGHT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY…………..
You sir, are the perfect manifestation of the trend of loopy Ukies yelling more and more above the crowd just to get noticed.
The world has spoken to Ukraine. ‘Go away, failures are too embarrassing (and potentially incriminating) for us not to be forgotten asap.”
Let’s hope that something good for North Korea will come out of this meeting.
at least they left bloody bolton behind — bbb
“Great friendship” – with sanctions?
I like it about Trump that there is no, like, final meeting and that is the end. He keeps showing up, or asks for meetings, or drops in to say hello when he is in the neighbourhood. He did the same thing at the airport in Iceland when the plane landed to refuel “I figured I might as well get off the plane.” I am somewhat dismayed by the double devil duo, little Johnny and the fat boy; they seem to be ardent Christian Zionists. My take is that Trump owes the Israelis big time – Sheldon Adelsson(sp?)for one –… Read more »
Trump’s manner of diplospeak is getting very tiring.
Great friendship? I would take this, not with a grain of salt, but an entire shaker full of salt.
South Korean males need to grow some very MASCULINE BALLS and tell the Amerikans to “get the FCUK OFF MY TERRITORY!!” By having ZOG stormtroopers based in South Korea, they become an obvious sitting duck – from Russia, China & NK. SK and Japanese politicians are supremely naive idiots – as soft (mentally) as the driven snow. Perhaps all of that video gaming in SK & Japan has turned most of their men into harmless soy boys? Never in my life have I seen such compliant vassalage to the point of being destructive to a country’s psyche. When its all… Read more »