VOX: Watch the “movie trailer” Trump showed Kim Jong Un about North Korea’s possible future
In Singapore, Trump treated Kim to a Hollywood-style video about “two men, two leaders, one destiny.”
Among the many tactics President Donald Trump rolled out in his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore was apparently a four-minute video, styled like a movie trailer, that casts Trump and Kim as the heroes of a story about “two men, two leaders, one destiny.”
It was part of an overall pitch that reaching a deal between the US and North Korea would help North Korea advance technologically and economically — including, Trump suggested, some real estate development.
“They have great beaches,” Trump said. “You see that whenever they are exploding the cannons in the ocean,” he said. “I said look at that view. That would make a great condo. I explained it. I said instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world. Think of it from the real estate perspective. South Korea and China and they own the land in the middle. Great. I told them, you may not want to do what’s there. You may want to do a smaller version of it. That could be. He looked at that tape.”
The “tape,” actually a video that Trump showed Kim on an iPad, was presented in both English and Korean to journalists before Trump’s press conference.
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WNU Editor: For people in the West this type of lifestyle is taken granted, and I am sure there are also some who are ridiculing this Trump video. But for those in North Korea who will see this video .... it will have an impact. I was in China in the mid 1980s .... and that country was dirt poor. But many had access to TV programs from Taiwan (I was based in Fujian province), and every Chinese person I knew .... from political leaders to the common man on the street .... wanted to have that type of life. It took awhile .... but Fujian Province today is nowhere near what Fujian Province was like 30+ years ago. I can only hope that North Korea also follows the same path.
2 comments:
People either forget or don't know that China was as impoverished pre 1980 as DPRK is today and as isolated politically.
He and his sister know from their time in Switzerland that there is another way, China for sure has been telling them the same words.
There is no turning back. He certainly has skied through a few barriers.
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