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Sputnik: South Korean President Speaks Before North Korean Citizens for the First Time
SEOUL (Sputnik) - Since the start of the year, the situation on the Korean Peninsula has substantially improved with Pyongyang promising to close its missile test range and completely disassemble its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday for the first time spoke before the North Korean public at a large stadium in Pyongyang, where 150,000 people gathered to listen to his speech, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Seoul press center, which receives all information about Moon's visit to Pyongyang.
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WNU Editor: This is history being made, and another sign to me that the Korean peace and reconciliation process is on track.
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If exactly the same summits, deals, optics were being done by past President Obamaat anytime between 2009 and 2016, the media would be star struck at the spectacle. MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, NPR, NYT, WAPO would be flooding into North Korea for their anchors to preen and slobber over Obama's lightworker powers.
Today because Trump orchestrated this reapproachment it is a black out in American media.
Another reason media personnel, in general, are despicable propagandists.
Anon (4:09),
I tend to agree with your analysis, however, President Obama did not orchestrate any of this so we cannot "know" for certain. It is, however, substantial evidence in refutation of the standard media narrative that nothing happened in Singapore.
President Trump is the only new variable in all of this. There is really nothing new about all of the other participants in this situation. People like them have been prevalent in all of these countries for some time in positions of political leadership. As the only new variable to the equation, I would tend to believe that president Trump should get the lion's share of the credit for what has transpired to date.
Is there still much that can go wrong? Absolutely there is.
As you say the media outlets you name are "despicable propagandists." As such, given their propensity to misreport, take things out of context, and otherwise distort, I'm not even sure the North Korean leadership or other involved parties would even want them preening around North Korea.
As a person with an international business background, Trump no doubt has/had numerous contacts and relations with important officials in important countries such as Russia and China. Some of those have obviously been successful and others very likely not but at the end of the day, while they may not always get along, there is likely the general feeling among these leaders that they can trust him and his team members. This is certainly going to be a plus in any negotiations.
I support what Anon 4:09 said.
Magnanimous gesture by Kim Jong Un in the picture
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