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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 Kims 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
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)captain queeg
(10,208 posts)Piece of shit of the United States.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)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)And the thing we dont 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 thats currently got a new machine in it. This crate will hold at least six Trumps. Id 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 were going to airdrop our ersatz president and his useless family into their most sensitive military base, they probably wont shoot the crate down. At least we dont think they will.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Hey Kim, send masks and toilet paper!.........
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)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.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Russia already sent North Korea tests kits.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-03-12/russia-delivers-coronavirus-test-kits-to-north-korea
Make7
(8,543 posts)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.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)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)on NK's "big, beautiful beaches," I see.
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)There are a lot of Americans who need help.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)I bet they shoot people that show any symptoms.