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RandySF

(58,911 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 02:11 AM Mar 2020

Trump Sends Letter to North Korea Offering Help Fighting Virus

U.S. President Donald Trump sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offering help fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

The letter also included a plan for advancing ties between the countries, according to a statement from Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, that was published by state-run Korean Central News Agency.

North Korea has said it has avoided the virus pandemic and seen no cases of infection, though the U.S. has said it has seen evidence the nation has been affected. The letter comes just after North Korea appeared to have fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea shared with Japan.

Sending the letter was “a good judgment and proper action,” Kim Yo Jong said in the statement. “Fortunately, the personal relations between the two top leaders are not as far away as the relations of confrontation between the two countries.”



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/trump-sends-letter-to-north-korea-offering-help-fighting-virus?utm_source=twitter&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-asia&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=asia

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4. Oh Jesus Christ! He just can't stop sucking up to dictators, can he?
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 02:22 AM
Mar 2020

What kind of help does Fat Donnie have in mind? Masks, tests, hospital beds? Sure, send them what we don't need -- we have more than enough to share

I would say, "Maybe he should think about the people who elected him first," but I know that would fall on deaf ears. After all, the only voices he listens to are the ones in his head that tell him he's doing a great job.

How sad to have the worst president ever -- no, the worst human being ever -- in charge at the time of a worldwide crisis.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
14. I agree with sending them what we don't need
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:29 AM
Mar 2020

And the thing we don’t need the most is any of the Trumps running around the country fucking shit up the way they do. I just happen to have a nice big wooden crate that’s currently got a new machine in it. This crate will hold at least six Trumps. I’d be more than happy to remove the machine from it, spend a couple hours drilling holes in it, and donate the crate to the cause. We can load Trumps into the crate, attach a G-11 cargo chute, and drop it over the Tongchang-ri Missile Range. If we inform the North Koreans that we’re going to airdrop our ersatz president and his useless family into their most sensitive military base, they probably won’t shoot the crate down. At least we don’t think they will.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
5. If this shit keep getting worse, we may need help from them.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 02:25 AM
Mar 2020

Hey Kim, send masks and toilet paper!.........

pat_k

(9,313 posts)
7. What other countries did he send similar letters to?
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 02:38 AM
Mar 2020

I'd expect he'd write his buddy Putin.

He loves his follow autocrats. Maybe his buddy Erdoğan got one too.

P.S. If we send even one mask to N. Korea, I'll be pissed.

Make7

(8,543 posts)
9. I 100% support sharing information with every country on the planet concerning worldwide pandemics.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 03:44 AM
Mar 2020

There is a better chance of finding solutions when everyone is working on it and willing to share. I realize the odds of North Korea finding a cure or developing an effective vaccine first are essentially nil - but all nations need to work together on problems that affect the whole planet - or at the very least, offer to work together and share knowledge.



Maru Kitteh

(28,341 posts)
13. How about YOU GET ME A MASK FIRST MOTHERFUCKER!
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:24 AM
Mar 2020

I have never felt so much rage in my entire LIFE. I have been scouring the web, spent about $200 tonight finding and purchasing materials I plan to sew together to try and make some kind of mask that will be even a bit more effective than the shitty paper ones my facility is running out of as we speak. Some won't arrive for at least another two weeks. I can't even imagine what life will be like by then. I just want to live.

FUCK.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
15. So, Pissolini's still hoping to build some of his big, ugly hotels & golf courses
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:18 AM
Mar 2020

on NK's "big, beautiful beaches," I see.

zackymilly

(2,375 posts)
18. Why? Kim publicly stated they don't have a corona virus problem.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 02:58 PM
Mar 2020

I bet they shoot people that show any symptoms.

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