According to South Korean officials familiar with the situation, North
Korea’s Kim Jong Un was eager to make the Hanoi Summit goes as smoothly
as possible, and even took the rare step of ordering top generals not to
carry out any unplanned activities of any kind in the weeks ahead of
it.
The concern was that any activity seen as out of the ordinary would panic the US
and possibly provoke the Trump Administration into bailing on the
negotiations. Since the US ultimately did this anyhow, at least at the
ed of the summit, it’s not clear how much the advanced care mattered.
But it was reflective of the nervous attitude on both sides going into
the talks. The US was also treating the summit as if any wrong move
could spoil everything, reflective in the administration’s severe
limitation of military exercises which historically have provoked the
North Koreans.
Both sides clearly recognized the importance of the opportunity, and the
mutual distrust that could threaten to derail it. This would seem to
have made this an ideal time to make peace, though ultimately the
interest in keeping everything going didn’t extend into deal-making
itself.
I don’t think crazy Bolton noticed this at all. Nor did he notice that South Korea’s Moon Jae-in was bending over backwards trying to make peace happen. Trump surrounded himself with neocons for a reason. Peace doesn’t figure into their big plan which is for continual conflict and tension in the world… And, don’t tell me that Hillary would have been worse!
Well, Thomas, Hillary would’ve been much worse, to be exact. Trump himself isn’t a warmonger. He didn’t surround himself with Trotskyists aka neocons; most of them are leftovers from the previous administration who wouldn’t leave the White House.
The true reason the 2nd summit failed was that Bonkers Bolton sabotaged it. Apparently, you don’t have much information on this lunatic. Did you know he’s close buddies with Israeli PM Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo and has been for over a decade? It was Nutty&Yahoo who foisted Bonkers onto Trump to appoint him as Nat, Security Adviser. Trump would’ve never appointed him on his own initiative.
Another fact about Hillary is that she was behind the Jihadist attack on the US Consulate wherein Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 of his security staff were murdered. With Obama’s approval, Hillary ordered the rescue helicopters to stay away; thus, the 4 Americans were murdered by militants.
No, Jason, you got it wrong. The exercises dont occur because they are predominately naval invasion exercises. The SK marines were not going to participate, so the exercises were pointless. Further, “the US was also treating the summit as if any wrong move could jeopardize everything”…..is that why, within days of the location announcement in January 19, trump deployed 3 B-2, and 6 B-52h bombers to Guam ? These are nuclear equipped first strike assets aimed directly at North Korea. Oooops