Flagrant Fowl wrote:Terrible idea.Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:It looks like Trump and Kim want to meet. Good or bad idea? I heard yesterday that Kim wants to make a peace treaty with Trump. But NK has been notorious for going back on its word in these kinds of negotiations.
The whole point of not meeing KJU in the past is that it gives him and his authoritiarian regime more legitimacy. North Korea will never bomb the US or US ally without being directly attacked first. They are not a terrorist state out to push some sort of greater ideology a la ISIS. They just want sactions lifted.
Let's not forget that Trump likely knows next to nothing about the politics of this situation. The US doesn't even have an ambassador in South Korea right now.
The US policy should be to let the South Korean government deal with the situation first. As an American living in South Korea, I find the average American's insistance on being involved in this matter over the wishes of the Korean people to be embarassing.
Trump wants to rip up the Iran deal because he says they cannot be trusted. Iran has shown in the past that they will make deals and go back on their word. It's a pretty valid claim but, this last deal is between the US, China, Russia, France, Germany, UK, etc. It may not stop them but it might slow them down.
NK has done almost the exact same thing. They make deals and go back on their word later on. My point is that why is the Iran deal bad and a possible NK deal good if they both cannot be trusted? My answer/opinion is that Trump didn't make the Iran deal. Obama did. The NK deal would be different because Trump did it. I am channeling Trump of course.
As far as the US wanting to be involved. We have been heavily involved since the Korean War. It's all part of the stopping Communism from spreading movement like in Vietnam. Over 30k Americans died in Korea. We have 20k+ troops stationed on the front line at this moment. NK threatens not just SK. They threaten Japan and the US regularly with nuclear annihilation. The SK people certainly have a right to want to reconcile with NK and be part of the negotiations. All they have to do is bend a knee to Kim Jong and accept his rule and they can reconcile tomorrow. All of Korea would be under Kim Jong-un's rule right now if it wasn't for the US intervention IMO. I think the US does have a right to be involved because we have a stake in it too and are a super power.
Trump won't care about what SK wants. I doubt he could find it on a map. His motivations I suspect are based on his ego. Deflect from the Russia thing and be the hero who personally saved the world.