The Republicans think Don Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for bringing North Korea to heel. Kim Jong Un did, after all, promise to close the country's nuclear test site. Way to go, Donnie.
Only maybe it wasn't really Trump's doing. Maybe King Jong Un had other reasons to shut it down. The South China Morning Post offers a more plausible explanation.
North Korea’s mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure, two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed.
One group of researchers found that the most recent blast tore open a hole in the mountain, which then collapsed upon itself. A second group concluded that the breakdown created a “chimney” that could allow radioactive fallout from the blast zone below to rise into the air.
Not so fast!!
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May be true may be not so.
Add to that that Kim is a very cleaver negotiator.
TB
Trump deserves 3 Nobel Prizes: One Nobel Peace Prize for stopping HRC and the military-industrial-complex from reviving the Cold War with Russia.
ReplyDeleteAnother Nobel Peace Prize for taking a stand against nuclear proliferation among unstable rouge regimes.
Third, a Nobel Prize in economics for standing up to free-trade globalization which is a WMD on the global economy and environment.
Of course, in our Orwellian world of lies, they only give out Nobel Peace prizes to war mongers like BHO and Henry Kissinger. The Nobel Prize in economics is even more ridiculous. The field of astrology has more credibility.
Who would've thunk that the best president since Eisenhower would be a game-show host? Who would've ever imagined how rotten and useless all the presidents would be in between?
Mound, do you think that Anon 8:09 might actually be the Trumpster himself posting to your blog? His facts seems to be as delusional as the medical report Trump dictated to his doctor. Covfefe!
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It's true we don't really know if the test sight is actually unusable or not. There were several seismic events after the last test that could indicate a collapse, but not necessarily. The other explanation I've read regarding Kim offering to suspend tests is somewhat simpler. Building a nuke is a engineering problem, and you need to test that your design actually works, but once you are happy that it does, the need for testing is over and further tests just waste the fissionable material you have. North Korea has ran six tests, roughly the same as Pakistan and India did before they were happy with their designs and stopped testing their nukes. Either way, Kim is offering something he either doesn't have anymore, or doesn't need anymore.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to believe that somebody who threatened to wipe out a whole country is being considered for a Peace Prize.
ReplyDelete@ mr. perfect - whomever it is, I think he slipped off his log. Did you hear that the Flat Earth Society is making a big comeback? Anon had better be careful. There'll probably be a run on tin hats.
ReplyDeleteOh well. You have to admit they're good for a chuckle.
The fact that Moon, Jae-in has been doing all the leg work regarding North and South Korea, it would be fitting to give the President of South Korea due recognition instead of Trump. Kim, Jung-in will do what has been done at the Summit in 2000 and in 2007. He will smile broadly and tell Trump what a wonderful person he is. Trump will walk away and talk about the wonderful person Kim is and Kim will go back to doing what he was doing before the 2018 Summit. "Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at Tufts University, doesn't think that the president's tweets and their hardline rhetoric were having an effect.
ReplyDelete"'Fire and Fury the likes of which the world has never seen before': that threat was made on Aug. 8 last year."
Three days later, the president also tweeted that all military options were ready to go, Lee said.
"In late August, just three weeks later, Kim Jong-un's fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan.
"And then five days later, on Sept. 3, Kim had his nation's most powerful nuclear test conducted — a thermonuclear test that fractured the mountain above the test site.
"That doesn't strike me as the behaviour of a frightened man," he told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
Kim met South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a historic summit on Friday where they committed to the goals of complete denuclearization and officially ending the Korean War. Trump is expected to meet Kim in the coming weeks, and has been credited with getting the leader of the rogue state to the table.
The progress may be less to do with Trump's bark and more to do with his bite, according to Lee.
"Many people have the misperception that U.S. sanctions against North Korea have always been very tough, even maxed out — it's simply not true," he said.
"Trump really is the first U.S. president to enforce sanctions against North Korea in a meaningful way," he said.
Anyong
Number two...Likewise, Beau Phillips, a former Republican strategist, said Trump achieved more than his predecessors.
ReplyDelete"When it came to North Korea, he made clear from the start that he was going to take a much harder line," he said.
Barack Obama "chose to turn a blind eye for eight years," he said, while under Bill Clinton, North Korea received hundreds of millions "in exchange for actions that were only momentary in nature." Likewise, Beau Phillips, a former Republican strategist, said Trump achieved more than his predecessors.
"When it came to North Korea, he made clear from the start that he was going to take a much harder line," he said.
Barack Obama "chose to turn a blind eye for eight years," he said, while under Bill Clinton, North Korea received hundreds of millions "in exchange for actions that were only momentary in nature." He added that "when you've seen Rambo I, II and III, by the time Rambo IV comes around you have a pretty good idea how it's not going to end."When the two leaders meet, he predicted, Trump will be "moved by his own hubris and his ability to tame this backward Little Rocket Man."
"Kim Jong Un will lie to Trump's face, say all the things that Trump wants to hear.
"Trump will come away from the meeting thinking that he has somehow emotionally connected with a North Korean," he said, "and be more prone to giving North Korea concessions." Anyong
Just an idea, Anyong. It's that old adage about chickens and hatching and counting.
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