Kim may well want not to have to spend any more on his nuke and rocket program, just as long as he can keep them credible.
He is not going to be able to pay his own hotel bills in Singapore.
The great thing about this is that now Kim Jong Un doesn’t have to wonder how unprepared Trump is: now he knows that Trump is utterly and completely unprepared.
I wonder if he knows the words to Aegukka.
I think this is one of those sticky issues that can be easily resolved with Trump issuing Kim’s pardon. It’s all about the willingness to get things done, you see.
I just thought of this, and I admit that I’d laugh if it happened: wouldn’t it be a hoot if one day Trump just up and announced that he had pardoned every citizen for everything they had done or might have done up until that point? Everyone starts with a clean slate. That’d sure fuck up the system!
Be a bit fun, but would only work for federal crimes.
Though emptying the jails would be an improvement.
Mueller’s investigation will need the space for Trump & Co.
Whatever Trump agrees to is certain to be a much biglier believe me deal than that utter fucking hosing Obama gave Maga’ians in his agreement with Iran.
Exactly all this. In fact, it may have been this thread where I pretty much said the same. It may just be Trump’s specific goal to construct a nuclear “deal” he can tout as a win that isn’t supposed to actually result in significant denuclearization until he’s long gone (Hosanna!) and can blame any failures on his successor.
For him and Kim, that’s a win/win. They both need each other’s help and neither of them could give a shit about anything or anybody else. So a “deal” there will be… Except, inexplicably, it appears that John Bolton is slated to go to the talks in Singapore. He’s the wild card, and he may just jump on the table and start beheading the members of his own delegation for considering a weak deal.
Should be as interesting as it is terrifying. It would not surprise me if something interferes with Bolton’s ability to attend… or to ever be heard from again…
So today Trump left the G7 conference saying "
and immediately began tweeting crap about everyone he had just walked away from, finally working himself up into such a lather that he repudiated the conference communique that he had just agreed to a few hours earlier.
So then he says that the meeting with NK is a “one-time shot” for Kim. Does he think that Kim is going to trust him to keep his word on anything? Why would he think that? 
North Korea was just clearing a construction site for the new US Embassy…
Ah, Dennis Rodman, ambassador to NK. I see it coming.
Too late to add this…
Seems Dennis Rodman will be at the summit.
Yet another fellow reality show cast member in the flow of Trump related news.
I really thought that was going to be an Onion article. Wow.
Before anything happens, I’d like to hear from the Presidents critics on what an initial successful meeting would look like?
Denuclearization, removal of advanced enrichment capabilities, and around the clock supervision by an international consortium to ensure compliance, in exchange for easing of sanctions. Iran 2.0.
What would be the conservative response to such an agreement?
North Korea agreeing to dismantle any and all nuclear weapons plus agreeing to restrictions on the acquisition of raw materials similar to those included in the Iran deal. And agreeing to inspections similar to the inspections in the Iran deal.
Now here’s a few for you. One of the main criticisms from the right regarding the “horrible horrible very bad no good” Iran deal wasn’t about the terms of the deal. It was the idea that no matter how good the deal was, Iran could not be trusted to keep it. Why do you think that North Korea is more trustworthy than Iran?
The other was that without Congressional approval that the Iran deal was invalid. Why would this one be different?
Before anything happens, I’d like to hear from the President’s supporters on what the minimum is for a success. Also, what would constitute a failure.