John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON CBC NEWS
“Trump says North Korea summit might not happen on June 12
“President says he'll 'guarantee' Kim's safety if N. Korea agrees to verifiable, irreversible denuclearization”
I've been reading rumors of this for days on the Internet.
Some of Trump's advisers do not think the tone and appearances of meeting with Kim would be at all good for the midterm congressional elections, which already are expected to go somewhat against Trump's party.
If the Democrats win back some control in Congress, the Great Orange One is going to become the Great Orange Lame Duck for his last two years.
However, I think there has been too much hype about this summit. Kim has very little incentive to do as the Orange One demands.
All Trump ever does is threaten. And I do think at least a few nuclear warheads are as much safety as you can have against threats.
The whole mess is greatly the fault of America anyway. They keep a well-armed army on Kim's border, which, by the way, already the White House says will stay - almost 70 years after the Korean War.
As for Trump promises of any kind, well tearing up the Iran Agreement and illegally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, causing immense harm, shows you what his word is worth.
Anyway, American Presidents today are not really in charge of the military-intelligence complex when it comes to great strategic matters. Trump has been totally turned around from his campaign views on Russia, etc. He showed his total cowardice to the boys in the big suits almost immediately.
You know, not a lot of people understand North Korea's fears. The US literally wiped out an estimated twenty percent of the entire population with carpet bombing in the Korean War. It was good practice for the three million they would later slaughter in Vietnam.
But the U.S., absurdly and arrogantly, has always refused to talk directly with North Korea, refused even to recognize the country, regularly threatens and maintains intimidating forces and war games, allows South Korea absolutely no latitude in its dealings with the North, this last to the extent that the very promising new President of the South had his promising words in the election quickly and quietly suppressed, and America never stops thinking of themselves as the good guys.
The two Koreas could solve their problems together if allowed, but they are not allowed to do so, and by the same American interests which keep pressuring Europe concerning Russia.
