Saturday, May 5, 2018

Is Trump Winning When It Comes To North Korea?

Photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toasts with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, as he paid an unofficial visit to China, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 28,2018. KCNA/via Reuters

Alex Lockie, Business Insider: Trump is winning and heads are spinning as North Korea talks get off to a running start

* President Donald Trump has emerged from a year on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea with a prospective peace deal.
* China and Japan appear to be struggling to keep up with the progress and promises being made in the Koreas.
* But North Korea's progress has been all talk up to now, and nobody can honestly say whether they're sincere.
* Having announced an end to testing nuclear devices and ballistic missiles, North Korea can now pursue a different kind of relationship with the outside world.
* If it happens on Trump's watch, it will likely count as a big win.

President Donald Trump has emerged from a year on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea with a prospective, unprecedented meeting with its leader Kim Jong Un on the books, renewed hopes of peace, and Nobel Peace Prize buzz.

Put bluntly, the reversal in North Korea's attitude towards the US represents one of the most stunning turns in politics since Trump scored a tremendous upset to win the 2016 presidential election.

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WNU Editor: It is hard to believe that it was only 8 months ago that North Korea exploded a thermonuclear bomb while launching missiles non-stop. And while I do not know if these Korean peace talks will succeed .... I do know that we are in a far better place today than where we were last year. And is Trump winning? That is a question that is inappropriate right now. What is appropriate is to support the peace-makers .... because the big winners will be the Korean people if this can be pulled-off .... which I now have confidence will be happening in the weeks/months/and years to come.

1 comment:

fred said...

how do you win when nothing has yet been done, put in writing?