Comments on: Trump-Kim ‘Reality Show’ Begins In Singapore

By: Random White Guy

Random White Guy — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:49:09 +0000

Can Donald Trump be anymore of a dumbass?? Kim Jong un just took him to the cleaners. There’s no way in hell anybody believes Trump did something good here.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:17:48 +0000

“Trump Was Outfoxed in Singapore”

Excerpt:
It sure looks as if President Trump was hoodwinked in Singapore.

Trump made a huge concession — the suspension of military exercises with South Korea. That’s on top of the broader concession of the summit meeting itself, security guarantees he gave North Korea and the legitimacy that the summit provides his counterpart, Kim Jong-un.

Within North Korea, the “very special bond” that Trump claimed to have formed with Kim will be portrayed this way: Kim forced the American president, through his nuclear and missile tests, to accept North Korea as a nuclear equal, to provide security guarantees to North Korea, and to cancel war games with South Korea that the North has protested for decades.

In exchange for these concessions, Trump seems to have won astonishingly little. In a joint statement, Kim merely “reaffirmed” the same commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that North Korea has repeatedly made since 1992. […] -New York Times writer

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:02:00 +0000

In reply to Mr.BD.

BD trust….Trumpkins know darn well WE gave up a lot and didn’t get squat for it. But they have to PRETEND that Trump did something great or else they’d have to face the Truth.

Truth and Facts AIN’T their friend, my friend.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:50:11 +0000

TAC Reader:
I can’t stand Trump but had this summit worked I would have applauded for the result, even if I can’t and the man who would have accomplished it. But despite the US proclamations, we gave up a huge chip in these talks and got bupkis.

The annual training exercises are a major thorn in the side of NK, and they have been protesting them for years. So we agree to stop doing something that actually pisses off the regime in exchange for a promise to at some point think about denuclearization. What a joke. […]

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:47:16 +0000

Daniel Larison:
The summit in Singapore was brief, and judging from the official statement released after the meeting it did not accomplish very much. North Korea has committed to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” That is the same vague, aspirational language that their government has been using for decades, and it still remains as unlikely to happen as ever.

The good news is that the summit did not cause a collapse of talks following a walkout by either side. The two sides committed to hold further talks.

The danger now is that one or both sides will misinterpret what the summit statement means and have unreasonable expectations for how quickly things should progress. The president this morning was already building up expectations that North Korean disarmament would begin soon.

This seems to be a case of reading too much into the North Korean commitment and misinterpreting it to fit the U.S. definition of denuclearization. When North Korea doesn’t begin dismantling its arsenal “very quickly,” there is a good chance that the president will overreact and anything that might actually be achieved through negotiations could be lost. North Korea’s arsenal is the reason they were able to receive the recognition and status that they now have, so they have every incentive to keep it. […] – TAC writer