Scoop: Trump may hold Round 2 with Kim Jong-un in NYC

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

Some administration officials are so optimistic about making progress with North Korea's Kim Jong-un that they hope a Round 2 with President Trump can be held in New York in September, when world leaders pour into Trump's hometown for the U.N. General Assembly.

The big picture: Officials tell us that Kim would have to show progress for the meeting to occur. One possibility would be for Trump to hold out a Round 2 meeting as a carrot to encourage real movement by North Korea over the summer.

https://images.axios.com/m40VSDo3UI0UgkvrJA-vEzeI1-s=/0x0:1920x1080/1920x1080/2018/07/02/1530523494066.jpg

Read more: https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-child-border-family-separation-boxed-in-1dc47dc3-a7ae-4847-a0ec-ef52ea4806f9.html

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Well, Kim would certainly get a helpful education in how Democracy and protests work...

[Renew Deal]

1. Why does he need to show progress for something that is already done according to Trump?

[Freethinker65]

2. What happened to the Mar a Lago invite?

[BlueJac]

3. Let's have a cage match for them!

[yallerdawg]

4. Come on, Kim.

"This is what democracy looks like."

[chelsea0011]

12. Always get a laugh when I see that picture. The family actually views that pic as a keeper.

[Cosmocat]

5. These people are so deluded, the believe their own bullshit

And, the zombie base just follows them along ..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. NKorea going backwards. Has increased missile production and nuclear production.

http://time.com/5328002/north-korea-expanding-missile-plant-report/

Satellite Images Show North Korea Is Expanding a Missile-Manufacturing Plant, a Report Finds
By Bloomberg 4:19 AM EDT

North Korea continued to develop a key rocket-engine facility in the run-up to Kim Jong Un’s summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to an independent analysis of satellite imagery.

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies report found that North Korea has recently expanded a factory complex in the eastern city of Hamhung that produces key engines for solid-fuel ballistic missiles. The factory also makes other missile components, including re-entry vehicles for warheads that could be used on longer-range missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

“The expansion suggests that, despite hopes for denuclearization, Kim Jong Un is committed to increasing North Korea’s stockpile of nuclear-armed missiles,” the report’s authors David Schmerler and Jeffrey Lewis wrote.

The analysis, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to undercut Trump’s assurances that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat” after his June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore. U.S. intelligence officials have separately concluded that Kim was seeking to conceal his nuclear weapons stockpile and had no intention of surrendering his arsenal, NBC News reported.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142098285

"Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles," said one U.S. official.
NBC News, by Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian and Carol E. Lee / Jun.29.2018 / 5:13 PM ET

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months — and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration, U.S. officials told NBC News.

[watoos]

7. Isn't Axios supposed to lean left?

Articles like this prove to me how the right controls the narrative. Axios should have added information like you just did. Axios should have laughed at the idea of a 2nd "summit" because of "progress."

The 1st Trump/Kim summit should be exposed for what it was, a total win for North Korea.

Thank you for bringing us all back to reality Bernardo, too bad we don't have more news organizations that do the same.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. You're welcome. This may be using Trump Framing. Axios seems relatively neutral to me when averaged.

The missile report is only within the last 24 hours so wouldn't have been factored into Axios reporting on a second summit.

The news media are prone to fall into tRump's ability to frame using language, and controlling the news cycle and narrative. This may be such a case.


Lakoff: Trump has turned words into weapons. And he's winning the linguistic war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/how-to-report-trump-media-manipulation-language

George P Lakoff and Gil Duran
Wed 13 Jun 2018

Donald Trump has been a salesman for nearly half a century. He is now selling himself, his worldview and his self-serving views of the law and the truth. His principal tools are language and the media. By faithfully transmitting Trump’s words and ideas, the press helps him to attack, and thereby control, the press itself.

Trump knows the press has a strong instinct to repeat his most outrageous claims, and this allows him put the press to work as a marketing agency for his ideas. His lies reach millions of people through constant repetition in the press and social media. This poses an existential threat to democracy.

Language works by activating brain structures called “frame-circuits” used to understand experience. They get stronger when we hear the activating language. Enough repetition can make them permanent, changing how we view the world.

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Scientists, marketers, advertisers and salespeople understand these principles. So do Russian and Islamic State hackers. But most reporters and editors clearly don’t. So the press is at a disadvantage when dealing with a super salesman with an instinctive ability to manipulate thought by 1) framing first 2) repeating often, and 3) leading others to repeat his words by getting people to attack him within his own frame.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210728613

[brooklynite]

11. So, you didn't like the article because they didn't offer an opinion you agree with?

I was under the impression that they were reporting news.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Maybe tRump is colluding with N Korea hackers to steal the 2018 and 2020 elections. . . . nt

[Javaman]

10. in that meeting the orange asshole will deed kim the west coast on the promise

that kim will stop being a meanie.

[Midnight Writer]

13. I picture Trump bragging about the quality of American prostitutes. "Best in history of the world!"