Trump: North Korea No Longer a Nuclear Threat
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President Trump returned on Wednesday from his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore and issued what would be a remarkable statement — if it were true.
“Just landed,” Trump tweeted shortly after touching down at Joint Base Andrews . “A long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”
While Trump and Kim concluded their summit in Singapore by signing a joint statemen t that promised “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” it did not specify what that process would entail. According to the Washington Post , North Korea’s definition of “denuclearization” is different from Trump’s.
The United States did, however, commit to suspending joint military exercises with South Korea , Trump told reporters before departing the summit site. It’s unclear whether the president informed U.S. allies in the region of his plan to end the “war games,” as he called them, prior to his declaration.
“We save a fortune by not doing war games,” Trump tweeted Wednesday , “as long as we are negotiating in good faith — which both sides are!”
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Trump described his meeting with Kim as “an interesting and very positive experience” and said North Korea “has great potential for the future.”
“Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea,” Trump added . “President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer — sleep well tonight!”
Not everyone is prepared to accept the president’s reassurances.
“What’s really disconcerting is that Trump announced unilaterally to the leader of North Korea that the United States is going to stop military exercises with our allies, without first telling our allies or even the Pentagon,” Michael Green, a senior vice president for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Yahoo News on Tuesday . “That’s astonishing.”
During his post-summit press conference, Trump admitted that he may be wrong about Kim’s willingness to denuclearize.
“I think he’s going to do these things,” Trump said. “I may be wrong. I mean, I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong.’ I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that, but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.”
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So... That's it then? Push a magic button and... Poof!... no more nuclear threat? Two despots who have a long history of not keeping their promises and not honoring their own agreements have an agreement. Kim's test facility was seismically unstable and leaking radioactivity so he had to close it. He needs money for a new one.
And trumpers will believe this bs hook, line and sinker....sad reality to live in.
And that money trump is talking about givng NK? Guess where it will go?
And all the agreement really seems to be is "We talked today and we might talk again."
Yeah, and somehow they'll even break this one.
Most likely the US will break it first like we did with the Agreed Framework. But at this point it's not clear what if anything has actually been agreed upon.
Talk about putting the cart before the horse.
Trump said. “I may be wrong I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that, but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.”
How reassuring having a president who seems to still to be stuck with the piss poor attitude of some teenagers.
In contrast, I was raised to believe you took responsibility for your mistakes.
As an adult I came to understand every human has problems and makes mistakes.
I also realized that responsible people deal with their problems and learned from their mistakes. Learning from your mistake starts with admitting you were wrong and made a mistake to begin with, not admitting mistakes is ignoring reality and doesn't fix the problem or the person.
IMO: Dysfunctional America recently just hired a fitting dysfunctional leader ..... So, WTF could go wrong ?
I guess we'll find out.
What? Me, worry?
...There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”
Sounds a lot like "Mission Accomplished". Can only hope this goes better than that affirmation!
For the supporters of everything Trump...Obama's "You can keep your doctor" is along the same lines of bogus statements. We saw how that worked as well
Lynne, please don't compare the pathological, daily, liar Donald Trump to President Obama. You are playing into the trumpist's hands.
All trumpers have is whataboutism when trying to defend the POS who resides in the White House.
Compare? Notice the winking face. The fact remains this forum provides a perfect platform to be the ugliest American around, just trying to head it off at the pass!
If one cannot see the distinct difference between Trumps statement and Obama's as it relates to us as American's, my only response is "you cannot fix stupid".
LIB, totally agree.
Unending whataboutism is why I phrased...For the supporters of everything Trump...
I agree Hussein Obama is best forgotten
Hey, I was kicked out of that nation... heh heh
And yet... You keep bringing him up.
Actually I didn’t. I responded to the post of someone else who brought him up
Yeah, you do that a lot.
This is yet another example of one of those things that are supposed to be true (in Trump's mind) simply because he is the one who said it. It is a psychological disorder.
It works like this - if you are Donald Trump you are never wrong (this is a man who has to be dragged kicking and screaming to make even the tiniest apology). Since, by dint of being Donald Trump , you are never wrong, therefore everything you say is true. Therefore and forthwith North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat to anyone.
Got that?
He even said in his news conference that if it turns out bad that he would lie about it and pass the blame.
*poof* All gone. Everybody is safe again, except for porn stars and playboy bunnies.
Not as long as there are Democrats and Hollywood celebrities
You realize that chocolate Easter bunnies are hollow and, therefore, at risk to Trump attack.
North Korea No Longer a Nuclear Threat
Because Mr. Trump says it is so, well that is just a huge pile of malarkey. I am sure that the peoples of South Korea will sleep easily with the knowledge that Mr. Trump is watching over them.
If Trump and the Republicans are so sure that NK is no longer a threat, let them send their own families to live there for the next 5 years and see if it is true.
All of this is Kabuki theatre.
It seems some lap it up.
Does any one think Un will let his people be exposed to the outside world? If they were, they would know how much they were being lied to all this time.
Un is not going to let his control over the populace disappear.
Someone else here said this and I have said it. Even if they did get rid of nukes, they have China on their border. China has more than enough nukes to cover them. They could even put some on the border to appease Un.