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Clearly, Kim had now recovered from the humiliation of the aborted summit with Trump in Hanoi earlier this year.
Donald Kirk
Updated 06.30.19 10:13AM ET Published 06.30.19 10:10AM ET
SEOULKim Jong Un would have to be declared the easy winner Sunday from his third meeting with President Donald Trump, this one in the dramatic setting of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone that is the border between North and South Korea.
In an atmosphere of mounting excitement, Trump clapped Kim on the shoulder as they shook hands exactly on the North-South line. The greetings exchanged between them seemed portentous, laden with hope that this time, perhaps, the yearning for reconciliation would survive the usual recriminations and intimidation.
Nobody had expected this moment, said Trump.
Its significant, said Kim, talking in Korean, an interpreter at his side. We want to bring an end to this unpleasant past and create a new future.
It was not just that Trump met Kim in the truce village of Panmunjom, or for a few seconds stepped across the line into North Korea, then made his way with Kim through besieging cameramen and security people on the southern side to Freedom House for a extended meeting with the North Korean leader. If Trump was able to proclaim the gesture a very historic moment, it was there behind closed doors that he and Kim got down to serious talking. Clearly, Kim had now recovered from the humiliation of the aborted summit with Trump in Hanoi at the end of February.
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dlk
(11,580 posts)Trump isn't sharp enough to come up with this awful idea on his own.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Trumpganistan (The nation formerly known as the United States) fades into the oblivion of Banana Republic status.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)(cue the Monty Python theme song)
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Written and Directed by--Donald J. Trump!!
Produced by Donald J. Trump!
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(And guaranteed to be 99% devoid of true statecraft, content or substance!)
moondust
(20,016 posts)I sure hope he didn't trip over any of Kim's dead victims and aggravate those treacherous bone spurs.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,755 posts)What must they be thinking?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Maybe one of the media big shots can spare a reporter from the Trump Voter Safaris they're always on and go ask the Warmbiers?
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)"Otto Warmbier" has been trending on Twitter all morning, and not in a good way. Did that asshole think we all forgot?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Never forget,thousands of North Korean Governmental People were Educated in Russia after 1953.
Old Vlad is the Puppet Master and S for Brains and Kimmie are just the Toys on the end of the strings.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Yeah, nothing clears the head like having all of the negotiators killed in March.
:gag:
Vinca
(50,318 posts)makes the United States the punch line of jokes around the world. God I despise him.