Think Kim knows the handshake game?
Five bucks says Kim licks his hand before shaking Trump’s. 
I thought he liked assets who don’t get captured.
NK releases are nothing new, every time Kim does so it’s because he got something of value for his hostages.
Although Donald is acting like he is single-handedly going to bring about world peace, don’t hold your breath. We may get a tiny step in the right direction. If it sets up a conference with the Koreas, Russia, China, Japan, and the US for final resolution, that’s about all we can hope for realistically. If Donald doesn’t drop to his knees on greeting Kim, he’ll exceed my expectations.
By golly, you are correct.
Unless he can get political mileage out of them.
Man, that is cold.
And true.
I see the meeting going down something like this.
Weapon of Choice
Counterpoint: North Korea nuclear program: Why take Donald Trump seriously? - Vox
Trump, perhaps wisely and likely under the influence of South Korea’s new progressive leader Moon Jae-in, has decided to reverse longstanding US policy and make this concession to Pyongyang. They plan to meet in Singapore on June 12. It’s not a crazy thing to try, and it’s certainly a good deal less crazy than Trump’s previous policy of berating the North Koreans with inflammatory tweets. Republicans would, of course, normally slam a Democratic president who decided to do this. But there are worse sins than hypocrisy in this world, and the Nixon-to-China dynamic could be beneficial here.
Except rather than defend the president’s dovish new direction, Republicans — including the White House itself — are spinning the meeting as a concession by the North Koreans.
“Trump’s Tough on North Korea Approach Is Working,” according to a press release from the RNC, and this kind of spin has gotten picked up everywhere from Fox News to local television stations.
When a notorious liar does something dramatic and new and starts immediately lying about what it is that he’s doing, a sensible reaction is to become alarmed and suspicious — not to suddenly become credulous and naive.
Pompeo: Our goal is to make sure the U.S. is safe from NK nukes. Seoul and Tokyo are on their own.
The bolded is not something Pompeo actually said. It’s implied, and while I can certainly believe it, it seems pretty uncharitable, and it should at least be made clear that he didn’t actually say that.
Well, how else can it be read, given the facts as we know them?
I’m not going to twist their words, but I’m not going to be ‘charitable’ to the Trumpies by letting them skate past the nasty implications of their words.
I think the Tweet from whoever was commenting on Pompeo’s statement is a minor misrepresentation, but then you added more confusion on top of that tweet. I think that pretty clearly amounts to twisting someone’s words.
Especially because it’s pretty hard to believe that John Bolton, Pompeo and others would be okay with North Korea disarming it’s “attack Los Angeles” nuclear weapons but keeping its “this nuke is only for use on Tokyo, we pinky-swear” weapons.
And also note that the basis of the question was about the U.S., and only the U.S., giving security guarantees to North Korea. Even the questioner – whomever it was – doesn’t seem to give a fuck about Seoul and Tokyo.
It’s not the nuclear weapons themselves, it’s the missiles that deliver them - and presumably we could come up with an agreement that allowed us to verify that they didn’t have anything that could hit a target 3000 miles away.
As long as NK has any nukes, they’d be able to drop them on nearby targets. Tokyo is less than 800 miles away.
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We’re NOT going to get NK to give up its nukes.
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From what Pompeo said, we ARE going to try to make sure he can’t drop one on the U.S.
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Maybe I’m wrong about this, but it’s hard for me to see how we keep NK from having short-range missiles.
The only new datum is #2. And sure, if we’re satisfied with ensuring that NK can’t lob a nuke to our side of the Pacific, Kim would probably be willing to give that up in return for being able to meet with the U.S. President, one-on-one, and whatever he can wangle out of Trump in that meeting.
Cool variation on the “riddle inside an enigma” quote. You’ve managed to pile inference on top of speculation on top of conjecture… and blamed it all on those dumb Trump bastards!
He’s already broken out the kneepads for Xi Jinping, lest China pull the plug on his chance to sit at the head of the big-boy table:
Let’s face it: liberals are scared that Trump might…win.
Absolutely. He won once. He could do it again.
I’m more scared that the inexperienced statesman whose MO has been bullshit, fraud, and lying for decades is going to cock something up badly.
Win lots of jobs in China? Hokay; if he achieves his #1 priority, so be it…
One suspects he has other reasons for suddenly declaring that he’s going to use the US Commerce Department to bring jobs back to a Chinese firm that is only losing jobs because it’s banned from using US parts after violating sanctions by selling US products to Iran and North Korea.
Trump is “winning”, in the sense that he is personally making a lot of money while screwing over America and Americans in a dozen different ways. I think that’s a reasonable thing to worry about.