North Korea haven’t run a nuclear test or launched ICBMs for several months.
Now unilateralists seem to be awarding them brownie points for saying they’ll do what they have already done.
Why they stopped? Dunno. Maybe they think they don’t need further tests or they are running short of resources. They are certainly down one launch site.
Whether/when they plan to resume is outside my ken but not getting what they want (which is the disarming of South Korea before they consider any disarmament of North Korea) in any upcoming talks is pretty likely trigger point.
And Rush Limbaugh is selling this as a yuuuuge accomplishment on the part of Trump, that none of his predecessors were able to pull off.
Hard to tell whether Limbaugh is being dishonest or just stupid, isn’t it? As you imply, any one of Trump’s recent predecessors could have met with whichever Kim was the NK dictator at the time, because a one-on-one meeting with the POTUS would have been a big boost of international status for Kim.
If I were a Republican, I would point out that North Korea hasn’t done a bunch of other things, like close its concentration camps, stop all arms trade, etc and declare this development as “the worst deal in history, and I know deals.”
Er, wrong forum for that. Gratuitous Simpsons quotes belong elsewhere. How about I say that I admire how Li’l Kim turned the destruction of his test site into a grand gesture of conciliation?
Their tests and belligerence tends to slow down during harvest season. I guess they’re never quite sure if the famines will be so extreme that even their military deserts them.
Hey, Kissinger actually worked pretty hard for years before wining his Peace Prize*.
Obama won his just by sleeping in the White House for a couple months.
*and I assume it was unintentional, but your [del]typo[/del]pun (“peace PriCe”) is pretty darn good )
Obama didn’t “win” the Nobel, it was awarded to him by people who didn’t realize that he was a status quo centrist.
It’s true that the Nobel committee doesn’t reward fascists and plutocrats, so Donny Boy is never going to get one. But so what? Let the Heritage Foundation or some other right wing institution come up with an award.
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