President Trump told reporters on Friday that he is not at all concerned by the short-range missile tests by North Korea earlier in the week, saying they had nothing to do with the US, and that he has good ties with Kim Jong Un.
The missiles were said to have flown around 600 km. Trump was quick to emphasize how short of a range that is, and that these are “very standard missiles,” which a lot of nations have.
Trump had reacted similarly the last time North Korea fired short-range
missiles, saying that they really aren’t a big deal as long as he’s
concerned, nor are they targeted at the United States in any way.
“He didn’t say a warning to the United States, I can tell you that,”
Trump said, saying North and South Korea “have their disputes.” North
Korean state media did, in fact, say the test was a warning to South
Korea over joint US military exercises.
Hmm… One day Trump says that he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face of the earth” in one week, but he’d rather not, so he doesn’t have to kill 10 million people. Then, he glibly declares that the prospect of a potential war in the Persian Gulf “could go either way, and I’m OK either way it goes.” Now, he says he is “not at all concerned by the short-range missile tests by North Korea earlier in the week, saying they had nothing to do with the US, and that he has good ties with Kim Jong Un.”
This is why negotiations with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, etc. are stuck at ground zero. You can’t trust anything that comes out of that man’s mouth, and our “adversaries” in Tehran, Pyongyang, and Caracas know it.
It’s almost like he has no idea what he’s doing, aside from using the office to turn a personal profit.
Trump talks and acts like a mobster: bullying, intimidation, empty threats, etc. Maybe that’s because he is a mobster and has been since the 1980s when he hung out with his mentor Roy Cohn and Meyer Lansky.
Why should he care about NK’s missiles?
“He didn’t say a warning to the United States, I can tell you that”
I wonder how South Korea feels about that statement.
Maybe South Korea should contemplate exercising with the Chinese and Russian military instead. It would solve all of these problems in one blow. The US troops leave and blows to commercial trade can be repaired by China. Although “crazy” for many reasons, we’re living in times the “craziest” ideas are formally discussed almost every day.
Trade with China wouldn’t be as lucrative. The US gives far too much in trade currently.
SK and Japan should work together even if they hate one another. China is their natural opponent, but they only need to balance China, not actually conflict. Trade should be done with all, where advantageous.
A threat Japan and SK face is they can’t protect their technology from China. And once China catches up, its resources enable it to retain an advantage. As a result, we might be living in a time of multi-polar Orwellian empires.
SK is strong enough to defend itself. Trump should sell SK military weapons and get out. He can sell to the Japanese as well.
Hey, according to the Dipsh*t-in-Chief, so long as he, Trump, has good personal relations with foreign leaders, who cares about anything else? It’s not like we’re actually a representative democracy, this is just TrumpUSACorp.