Dumb and Dumberer?!....oh noes, Trump invited to North Korea by Kim Jong-un [ not a joke ]......

[Speedy]

Steve G. wrote:
Maybe the Fat Boys are just getting together to do some Pilates.

Or to compare the length of their tiny hands.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The two items I agree with on a short list of reasons:
1) - NK is going this route is because it's a stalling tactic to allow them more time for continued research of rockets, nukes, and violate sanctions.
2) - It elevates NK to equal status to the USA as a Super Power by the leaders holding direct talks.

[hal]

For NK this is a HUGE win. They get lots of photo ops and they get to write the caption for their NK audience. They could write anything they wanted (TRUMP CAPITULATES TO OUR GREAT LEADER) and there is no voice to counter what they say.

Trump is thinking that he can do the same thing... of course, he's an idiot.

[Pam]

hal wrote:
For NK this is a HUGE win. They get lots of photo ops and they get to write the caption for their NK audience. They could write anything they wanted (TRUMP CAPITULATES TO OUR GREAT LEADER) and there is no voice to counter what they say.

Trump is thinking that he can do the same thing... of course, he's an idiot.

Kind of like the Russian guys in his office. Whom he gave code word Israeli intelligence to. Wonder what secrets he'll spill to the NK.

[davester]

'National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, leader of South Korean’s delegation to Washington, made the announcement to reporters gathered in the driveway outside the West Wing that Kim “is committed to denuclearization”'

Sadly, Mr. Trump doesn't understand that Kim is committed to the denuclearization of the USA.

[Ombligo]

Regardless, POTUS and Air Force 1 should not be going to NK. Meet with him - ok, but either in Washington or a neutral site. Going there gives Kim an immediate win in the eyes of the world.

[Ted King]

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/9/17100...eting-moon

President Donald Trump’s decision to agree to a historic face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can be traced back to the savvy politicking of another leader entirely: South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

Moon, who has been in office just 10 months, played a pivotal role in setting up the potential summit. That’s a particularly impressive accomplishment for Moon given that he and Trump have at times clashed sharply about how aggressively to confront North Korea. Tensions got so bad that in September, Trump accused Moon of “appeasement.”

Trump is taking a very different line now, expressing an openness to talks with Kim that would have seemed unimaginable when the president threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea during a United Nations address in September.

Experts say the shift reflects the success of Moon’s persistent push for “anytime, anywhere” diplomacy with Pyongyang. The South Korean leader’s efforts got a major boost during the runup to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, when he and Kim got into high-level talks over North Korea’s participation in the games. Moon used the momentum from those talks to set the stage for an unprecedented US-North Korean summit.

“South Korea deserves the vast bulk of the credit for this summit offer,” Mintaro Oba, a former State Department official who worked on North Korea policy, told me. “This wouldn’t have happened without President Moon’s initiative and deftness in balancing engagement with North Korea and close coordination with the United States.”

Moon’s orchestration of this meeting has, at least for now, significantly diminished the chance of violent conflict breaking out between North Korea and the US and steered the relationship toward the kind of open-minded diplomacy that he has called for for decades.

He’s also managed to break the pattern of what some South Koreans call “Korea passing” — the way the big regional players like China, Japan, and the US at times exclude or sideline South Korea in talks about North Korea policy. Moon has managed to charm Trump after a period of stormy relations, and has ensured that South Korea is now playing an indispensable role in talks over denuclearizing North Korea.

But it’s also a risky gambit. Moon can bring the US and North Korea to the table, but he can’t force them into a deal. And if the negotiations fail, Kim and Trump might, in a worst-case scenario, decide that military force is the only option left.

[Carnos Jax]

You guys realize Putin’s ordering Kim to do this, at the behest of/to make his other puppet Trump look good.

Broadly speaking, North Korea does nothing without Russia or China’s approval. And to some extent (in so much as Russia has an interest) neither does Trump.

[$tevie]

It's not going to happen.

[DeusxMac]

$tevie wrote:
It's not going to happen.

:agree:

Between now and May the trump administration will put forth some pretext which they will declare “justifies” calling off the meeting.