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2018-06-12 China-Japan-Koreas

Donald Trump Meets Kim Jong-un in Singapore

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-12 00:24|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
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#1 Something was signed a few mins ago! (12:30 CDT)
What we won't know until the press conference.
Oh and Kim will be invited to the Whitehouse.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-12 02:00|| 2018-06-12 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump will have a press conference at 7PM Singapore time that's 6CDT or 7EDT.
Says all will be explained at the press conference.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-12 02:16|| 2018-06-12 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Look for the Deep State to scream we're giving away the farm because we have to withdraw B-2s from Guam. As if they can't reach NK from Missouri.

They're going to be beyond pissed off that we get to withdraw our troops from Korea. It's their goal to conquer the whole world by putting US troops everywhere. Ain't gonna happen, assholes. America is not world police.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-06-12 03:06|| 2018-06-12 03:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Deep State to scream we're giving away the farm because we have to withdraw B-2s from Guam.

They'll have to be removed carefully due to the 'tip over' factor.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-12 03:51|| 2018-06-12 03:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Be interesting to see how Nanny Peloser spins whatever this is as a negative.

The Deep State (DS) will either fight this in the MSM or praise it to the heavens while trying to burrow beneath it to cause a collapse or smile smugly cause they know it's all their plan to begin with.

Posted by AlanC 2018-06-12 07:29|| 2018-06-12 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I hate to be the nay-sayer; I want Trump to succeed. But there's a wild-card here, and that's the behavior of the current South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, a committed leftist who masquerades as a moderate. Since he's been in office he's been making back-door deals to weaken the South and bolster Pudgy. He's committed to a 'reunification' strategy that in the end would impose a Northern style system on the south.

Worse yet, it isn't clear to me that the South is willing to stand up for itself. They clearly have the economy to do so, and everything I've read about the SKOR military is that it is professional, well-trained, and reasonably well equipped, though it needs better anti-missile and anti-air defenses. But my concern is that the South Koreans, as a people, may not be willing to defend itself against aggression, particularly if that aggression is of the usual communist style of agitation, canoodling, assassinations, etc (e.g., what Allende tried to do in Chile). If that is the case, a U.S. climb-down on military exercises, a staged withdrawal, etc., simply opens the door for more pressure from the North.

I'd like to be wrong; I'm not sure I am.

Posted by Steve White 2018-06-12 10:45|| 2018-06-12 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Transcript of the post-meeting news conference with Trump.

I caught it hours ago, but then it disappeared, showing only the WaPo annotated version, which was behind their paywall. This link seems to be open.

Wow, it’s a lot of questions. Go ahead. Sure. Go ahead. NBC.

QUESTION: Mr. Thank you, Mr. President. Two questions for you if you don’t mind. First, the man you met today, Kim Jong-un, as you know, has killed family members, has starved his own people, is responsible for the death of Otto Warmbier. Why are you so comfortable calling him very talented?

TRUMP: Well, he is very talented. Anybody that takes over a situation like he did at 26 years of age and is able to run it and run it tough, I don’t say it was nice or I don’t say anything about it, he ran it. Very few people at that age, you can take one out of 10,000 probably couldn’t do it.

Otto Warmbier is a very special person and he will be for a long time in my life. His parents are good friends of mine. I think without Otto, this would not have happened. Something happened from that day. It was a terrible thing. It was brutal. But a lot of people started to focus on what was going on, including North Korea.

I really think that Otto is someone who did not die in vain. I told this to his parents. A special young man and I have to say, special parents, special people. Otto did not die in vain. He had a lot to do with us being here today. Okay. Thank you very much.

Posted by Bobby 2018-06-12 13:56|| 2018-06-12 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 So has or has not Iran lost a prime place to deniabily test their nukes and ICBMs?

Does this imply that if they want a tested NUKE or missile they need to do it on their own territory?

If so, how many hours after do Saudi Arabia and Israel have a joint attack?

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-12 15:08|| 2018-06-12 15:08|| Front Page Top

#9 They will have to schedule it during earthquake.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-06-12 15:41|| 2018-06-12 15:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ...note to the Halliburton Earthquake Division.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-12 15:50|| 2018-06-12 15:50|| Front Page Top

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