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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:26 AM Sep 2018

North Korea's Kim wants new summit with Trump soon to continue denuclearization

Source: The Washington Post



By Simon Denyer and Min Joo Kim
September 20 at 8:10 AM

TOKYO — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to hold a second summit meeting with President Trump soon to speed up the denuclearization process, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday.

Moon was speaking on his return to Seoul after a three-day summit with Kim in Pyongyang. There, Kim promised to allow external inspectors into his country to verify that a missile test and launch site had been permanently dismantled, and he pledged to permanently disable an important nuclear site if the United States also takes “corresponding steps.”

Trump responded Wednesday to news from the summit by saying he was “very excited,” while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was “prepared to engage immediately” with North Korea to move dialogue ahead.

Moon said Kim wanted Pompeo to come to North Korea as well.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-koreas-kim-wants-new-summit-with-trump-soon-to-continue-denuclearization/2018/09/20/a4a33fbe-bcbd-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.e9dfd56f9515

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North Korea's Kim wants new summit with Trump soon to continue denuclearization (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
Something is up with this The Liberal Lion Sep 2018 #1
You bet. watoos Sep 2018 #2
That's the consensus in my house too underpants Sep 2018 #3
We, as Americans, The Liberal Lion Sep 2018 #7
They know they have a hapless egoist in their grasp and are going harvest it while its ripe pickings olegramps Sep 2018 #10
Yes...there's something wrong here. He does NOT plan to denuclearize. And he would NOT Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #12
I have a crazy theory about this. It has to do with secondwind Sep 2018 #4
I don't discount the metals theory, watoos Sep 2018 #6
Oh, boy! It's all going to work out perfectly. 'Very honorable' Kim and Dotard to the rescue. keithbvadu2 Sep 2018 #5
TRMP wanted to be best friends with Kim forgotmylogin Sep 2018 #8
Yes. Turbineguy Sep 2018 #9
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2018 #11
NK wants new summit paleotn Sep 2018 #13
YUP...Kim wants a new summit.. AZ8theist Sep 2018 #14

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
1. Something is up with this
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:29 AM
Sep 2018

Why should Un work with the abrasive trump when he wouldn't work with any other US leader? I don't believe Un is afraid of trump, nor do I believe Un is fearful of a war. So why now? Something smells.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
2. You bet.
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:32 AM
Sep 2018

I'm guessing Putin, Kim and Trump worked this out to make Trump look good.

Can they get the new summit scheduled right before the election?

underpants

(182,772 posts)
3. That's the consensus in my house too
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:39 AM
Sep 2018

My wife and I were talking about it the other night. Maybe it was just time (unlikely) to denuke but it all seems way to convenient for Trump.

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
7. We, as Americans,
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 09:55 AM
Sep 2018

are being completely trolled and gaslit daily at this point by this white house and this farce of a federal government. I don't believe a gottdamn thing coming from this white house, nor do I personally accepted the federal government as legitimate at this point in time.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
12. Yes...there's something wrong here. He does NOT plan to denuclearize. And he would NOT
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 04:13 PM
Sep 2018

want a mtg about that. His reps didn't even show up for the last scheduled mtg.

Wonder what's up?

Who gains?
Trump - good visual before the mid-terms.
Repubs - same as above.

What does N Korea get out of it?

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
4. I have a crazy theory about this. It has to do with
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:46 AM
Sep 2018

the TRILLIONS in metals that have recently been discovered in a mountain that has been destroyed. Un does nit have the equipment, the wherewithal etc to EXTRACT. Russia knows this. China knows this. And so does the U.S.

My theory is a horrific one. These countries will band together to form a new Axis. Three of these countries have one thing in common already:

Dictators for life. Trump will be the fourth.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
6. I don't discount the metals theory,
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 09:23 AM
Sep 2018

but I still don't see Kim giving up his nukes in exchange for Caterpillars.

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
5. Oh, boy! It's all going to work out perfectly. 'Very honorable' Kim and Dotard to the rescue.
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:57 AM
Sep 2018

Oh, boy! It's all going to work out perfectly. 'Very honorable' Kim and Dotard to the rescue.

Turbineguy

(37,319 posts)
9. Yes.
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 10:08 AM
Sep 2018

That's how you denuclearize. You have a meeting with trump and trump says: "They denuclearized! Did you see my inauguration?"

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

AZ8theist

(5,456 posts)
14. YUP...Kim wants a new summit..
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 06:14 PM
Sep 2018

To give his country a new photo-op and to show the world what an incompetent, idiotic, unsophisticated, stupid, imbecilic, utter FAILURE Doturd is ...........

ON THE FUCKING WORLD STAGE.

I've never been so ashamed and embarrassed to be an American.

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