On Thursday, President Trump tweeted to thank North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for his “unwavering faith,” promising that the two leaders would “get it done together.” This came after Wednesday’s reports that Kim, despite frustration at the diplomatic process, remains confident in Trump’s ability to progress things personally.
Trump and Kim are giving the appearance of remaining aligned personally, despite recent suggestions that the two nations are not really on the same page. President Trump had recently cancelled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s planned visit to North Korea over a perceived lack of progress on denuclearization. At the same time, North Korea’s efforts to negotiate a peace treaty are making little progress in the face of US opposition.
Doubling down on Kim’s expression of confidence, he has subsequently said that he has never once criticized President Trump personally on any issue. This is unlikely given the hostility between the US and North Korea in 2017, but indicative of how much this has become a direct exchange between the two leaders.
It also, then, makes Trump’s decision to scrap Pompeo’s visit as not necessarily nearly as serious a matter as it might other be seen. Pompeo’s involvement has rarely produced major direct positives for the process, and indeed North Korea’s state media has been irked by Pompeo and other administration officials, viewing them as trying to sabotage Trump’s efforts and calling on Trump to make “bold” moves unilaterally.
With the Westwing carrying out its own agenda and T.rump his, it appears T.rump might be bipolar.
Trump acts like a normal 4th grader a good 4th grader he is happy when he wins and he tries to win for us . Maybe we need to change our laws and have only 4th and 5 th graders run for president . Trumps accomplishments are so much greater than our other presidents it is not even funny . I hate his bragging and he does a lot of it just like any normal 4 th grader . Maybe Trump will grow up but I’am very pleased with Trump just the way he is .
Your backhanded compliment of T.rump is Just pouring.
How could any sane foreign government make a deal with Trump . When the information coming out of the U.S. media claims Trump is going down for colluding with Russia And the United States with be back to its globalist agenda in a couple of months . N korea is a nationalist country not particularly interested in having a global government ruling over them . Today N Korea is supposed to be working on denuclearization so they have asked the United States to declare the war is over . The United States has refused to do this until N Korea has denuclearized . I stick up for N Korea on this argument . Yet Kim now says he will denuclearize before the midterm elections because he trust Trump so much . Nobody ever said Kim was sane and reasonable but he is a gambler and I hope for his good luck on this gamble .
Arguably Kim and Trump have the same goals; end a war of no benefit to their country’s best interests and move towards peace and prosperity.
This would be in opposition to hardliners within their own MICs, whose agents could lose some of the unquestioned social status and priority peacetime wealth alone can’t buy.
China would perhaps be a little uneasy as well. They didn’t remain best buddies with Vietnam for long after the U.S. left Vietnam.