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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:52 PM Apr 2018

Trump says U.S. and North Korea have had direct talks at 'very high levels'

Source: The Washington Post

By David Nakamura and Anne Gearan April 17 at 4:35 PM

BREAKING: Trump says U.S. and North Korea have had direct talks at ‘very high levels’.

This story will be updated.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump said Tuesday that he has given “my blessing” to planned discussions between South Korea and North Korea about bringing a formal end to the Korean War and suggested that five locations are under review for his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“North Korea is coming along. South Korea is meeting and has plans to meet to see if they can end the war, and they have my blessing on that,” Trump said about word that the two Koreas would discuss a formal end to the war later this month.

Greeting visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his Mar-a-Lago resort here, Trump took some credit for the rapid developments related to North Korea.

“They’ve been very generous that without us, and without me in particular, I guess, they wouldn’t be discussing anything and the Olympics would have been a failure,” Trump said of South Korea and the Winter Olympics held there in February.

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Trump says U.S. and North Korea have had direct talks at 'very high levels' (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Does that mean Jared and Ivanka? n/t hibbing Apr 2018 #1

i'm thinking denver. unblock Apr 2018 #2

Trump family diplomacy keithbvadu2 Apr 2018 #6

Probably more like Dennis Rodman or "The Mooch" dameatball Apr 2018 #9

LOL who in the State Dept... Historic NY Apr 2018 #3

Everyone knows fuckface just wants advice from Kim on how to be a dictator. nt Lucky Luciano Apr 2018 #4

Kim Jong-Un wanted to meet with the leader of the US. Putin was busy so they're sending Trump. keithbvadu2 Apr 2018 #5

In other news, it was discovered that moon is indeed made of cheese Scalded Nun Apr 2018 #7

Dictator to dictator. sandensea Apr 2018 #8

While I don't doubt US involvement, I'm certain Donald is being kept well-outside talks. DRoseDARs Apr 2018 #10

hibbing

(10,098 posts)

1. Does that mean Jared and Ivanka? n/t

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:53 PM

Apr 2018

unblock

(52,257 posts)

2. i'm thinking denver.

Reply to hibbing (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:54 PM

Apr 2018

or maybe he was just on a plane in flight at the time.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)

6. Trump family diplomacy

Reply to hibbing (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:11 PM

Apr 2018

Trump family diplomacy

http://www.newsweek.com/indian-diplomat-compares-ivanka-trump-half-wit-saudi-prince-650206

"We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatter them.”

dameatball

(7,399 posts)

9. Probably more like Dennis Rodman or "The Mooch"

Reply to hibbing (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:37 PM

Apr 2018

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

3. LOL who in the State Dept...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:58 PM

Apr 2018

he makes an awful lot of claims.

Perhaps they all had some medical marihuana w/ tea.

Lucky Luciano

(11,257 posts)

4. Everyone knows fuckface just wants advice from Kim on how to be a dictator. nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:08 PM

Apr 2018

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)

5. Kim Jong-Un wanted to meet with the leader of the US. Putin was busy so they're sending Trump.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:10 PM

Apr 2018

Colbert made a great comment: "Kim Jong-Un wanted to meet with the leader of the US. Putin was busy so they're sending Trump."

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)

7. In other news, it was discovered that moon is indeed made of cheese

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:18 PM

Apr 2018

sandensea

(21,639 posts)

8. Dictator to dictator.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:18 PM

Apr 2018

Oh, well. Better than nothing.

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)

10. While I don't doubt US involvement, I'm certain Donald is being kept well-outside talks.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:00 PM

Apr 2018

If anything, North and South Korean officials are like "Oh Fuck Oh Fuck Oh Fuck this guy is probably going to get us all killed for real!" and they don't have confidence in someone who had the impulse control of a toddler... with nukes. The thing to remember about the two Koreas is "Statecraft is stagecraft." The Kim Jong XX's have no desire to lose power in their nation and the South Koreans are rather found of not living in smoking piles of rubble. Neither side is terribly interested in open warfare, because both know it would be disastrous for both. South Korea would rebuild with global aid and North Korea knows it would end as a state, subsumed by either South Korea in forced reunification or by China as a protectorate territory.

But Trump unbalances everything. And the Koreans are more afraid of an angry, unhinged orange than they are of each other.

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