By Trump's own yardstick, NKorea pact falls flat

[kpete]

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Source: The Associated Press

Analysis: By Trump's own yardstick, NKorea pact falls flat
Updated: JUNE 12, 2018 — 6:11 AM EDT
SINGAPORE (AP) - After all the hype, all the vows to tackle what's perhaps the world's most urgent crisis, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell short of the kind of deal the U.S. president himself has long said is needed to settle the North's decadeslong pursuit of nuclear weapons.

For months, Trump has been railing against presidents past, accusing them of an inexcusable failure to solve the nuclear threat emanating from the North. On Tuesday, he patted himself on the back for signing a "comprehensive" pact with Kim paving a path toward denuclearization, but the contours appeared far weaker than even his predecessors' failed deals.
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Yet line up all the bold claims Trump and his lieutenants made ahead of Tuesday's summit, and it's clear that the end result, at least where nukes are concerned, don't hit the mark. That's especially striking after last year's exchange of threats and insults between Trump and Kim, just as North Korea's torrid weapons testing had many fearing a renewal of the Korean War.

There was irony in the fact that Trump and Kim made direct reference in their agreement to the so-called Panmunjom Declaration between Moon and Kim, with its weak, reheated commitment to denuclearization that lacked specifics at how the rivals would get there. Similarly, there was nothing specific on nukes in Tuesday's declaration - and no joint affirmation of the goal of "complete, verifiable and irreversible" dismantlement that Trump's aides had previously made the litmus test for success.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. NK is a growth market for Trump Hotels

Think about it! NO Competition! Totally new concept to them. Consumerism.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. BREAKING: Trump says he talked up North Korea's real estate, beachside hotel opportunities

Link to tweet

BREAKING: Trump says he talked up North Korea's real estate, beachside hotel opportunities in Kim Jong Un meeting.

[Codeine]

4. I see a future of Trump-branded gulags

and luxury high-rises staffed by NK political prisoners.

[turbinetree]

3. yep when you to have TWO psychopaths sitting together one that brutalizes his citizens and

the other that brutalizes his citizens and wants to sell hotel space in a war zone, thats the fucking ticket talk about fucking hotels---------------- ............... this is what you call lack of empathy and cognitive reasoning to human kind...................what could possibly go wrong...................

Cognitive Reasoning...................

It encompasses processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language.


Well they both did not pass that test......................... they talked hotels....................

[Codeine]

5. "I think we can both agree

that anyone who isn’t in this room is human filth, right Kimmypie?”

[turbinetree]

6. I hate Traitors, and I hate a person that kills human beings for ego and lacks conscience

and yes they both and "all" there lackeys are human filth .....................

[duforsure]

7. This was just another shakedown for profits

Remember China weeks ago approved Ivanki copyrights, and gave the family a half a billion dollar loan lol, and this was nothing more than pay for policies again from trump. Now we'll find out he's looking at developing there in NK and getting his and his daughters products made there because their slave labor is one of the cheapest anywhere in the world. This was the worst deal for our country ever made, and those that refused to be shaken down by trump, Germany, France, Britain, Mexico and Canada are seeing his attacks, and policies to hurt them with. Pretty obvious what he's doing, and why, its all about money and power, and lots and lots of corruption. Now he's NK's best friend, just like has been done by Putin for his pro russian stance now. Look for him to somehow lift sanctions for putin soon, and for his cut for doing it as Carter Paige has said it was for. That's treasonous. This deal was too. No wonder he said he didn't need to study, it was another crooked business deal, nothing more.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Trump is weak. That's why he calls others "weak". . . . nt

[SunSeeker]

9. It was pure capitulation to Kim in exchange for a photo op. Embarrassing for our country.

Kim got everything he wanted and more. He got an American president treating him better than a Western ally, showering him with praise and putting a sick, murderous despot on the same level as an American president. Kim gave no promises to denuclearize, let alone timelines to do so. NOTHING. America has abandoned democracy and human rights. And yet people are so relieved Trump is no longer threatening NK with nuclear annihilation that they see this normalization of a murderous dictator as a huge improvement in relations. If Obama had pulled this stunt, the GOP would be calling for impeachment, and they'd be right.

[muriel_volestrangler]

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"Analysis: By Trump's own yardstick, NKorea pact falls flat"

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