Maybe the summit will still happen, but only one thing is going to change North Korea - when the peninsula is reunified and North Korea ceases to exist.
There's one basic problem you have when you try to do business with the Kim regime in South Korea.
In March, then-CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told "Face the Nation" that Kim has allowed the U.S. to "Continue our exercises on the peninsula something that's been fought over for decades." He also made similar remarks the same day on Fox News, saying Kim has "Got to continue to allow us to perform our militarily necessary exercises on the peninsula and then he's got to make sure that he leaves on the table that discussion for denuclearization."
In March, South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong said Kim "Understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue" after meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House.
North Korea needs this summit much more urgently than the U.S. or South Korea need it, and threatening to cancel it over something he should know is routine is something the Norks' are not in a position to benefit from.
Since we're dealing with an irrational lunatic, I'll simply observe that Kim is being crazy ... because Kim is crazy.
I think Trump knows perfectly well that he got Kim to the table by being tough, not by making concessions, and if Kim wants to play this game now he can deal with even tougher sanctions and no guarantees of security in the future.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/here-we-go-north-korea-threatens-to-pull-out-of-trump-kim-summit
There's one basic problem you have when you try to do business with the Kim regime in South Korea.
In March, then-CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told "Face the Nation" that Kim has allowed the U.S. to "Continue our exercises on the peninsula something that's been fought over for decades." He also made similar remarks the same day on Fox News, saying Kim has "Got to continue to allow us to perform our militarily necessary exercises on the peninsula and then he's got to make sure that he leaves on the table that discussion for denuclearization."
In March, South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong said Kim "Understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue" after meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House.
North Korea needs this summit much more urgently than the U.S. or South Korea need it, and threatening to cancel it over something he should know is routine is something the Norks' are not in a position to benefit from.
Since we're dealing with an irrational lunatic, I'll simply observe that Kim is being crazy ... because Kim is crazy.
I think Trump knows perfectly well that he got Kim to the table by being tough, not by making concessions, and if Kim wants to play this game now he can deal with even tougher sanctions and no guarantees of security in the future.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/here-we-go-north-korea-threatens-to-pull-out-of-trump-kim-summit
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