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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 01:52 PM Mar 2018

Many Think Trump's Meeting with Kim Won't Happen


March 10, 2018 at 7:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard

New York Times: “At the State Department, where some diplomats quietly applauded Mr. Trump’s gamble, there was a fear that more hawkish aides in the White House might throw up further hurdles to the meeting. The White House, they said, has invested more in sanctions and military options than in diplomacy. Officials there have in the past expressed frustration about what they viewed as the Pentagon’s reluctance to provide options for a military strike on the North.”

“With all the potential traps and internal misgivings, some officials said they believed the chances of a meeting between the two leaders actually happening were less than 50 percent.”

“Mr. Trump’s decision stunned allies and his own advisers, not least Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who was caught unaware while traveling in Africa when the president accepted Mr. Kim’s invitation.”

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Many Think Trump's Meeting with Kim Won't Happen (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
"Trump's Gamble?" Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. "Trump's Gamble?"
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 02:01 PM
Mar 2018

smh

Not a gamble, he wanted his cheeseburger, they were bothering him with NK and to get them to shut up and go away he said "OK, I will meet with the guy"

I am not kidding or exaggerating, that is how it went down.

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