This seems to be the North Korean’s leader move to get ahead of American President Donald Trump being able to claim any credit in a peace between North and South Korean….
Few experts believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will actaully give up his countries nuclear weapon program completely….
North and South Korea signed a declaration on Friday committing to work toward the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the announcement during a high-stakes summit in South Korea on Friday that represented the first time a leader from the North has visited South Korea.
They also agreed to formally end the Korean War of the 1950s.
The meetings come before what is expected to be an even more important and difficult meeting between Kim and President Trump.
In the declaration, the two nations promised to reduce military arms, cease “hostile acts,” and agreed to transform the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into a “peace zone.” …..
Note….
This is the gist of Trump versus North Korea, 2018 edition: The U.S. and its democratic allies, South Korea and Japan, are not demanding regime change. North Korea’s vicious regime can continue to run a Stalinist gulag and starve its wretched citizens. This is a concession to China. If the North Korean gulag remains, Communist China will retain an authoritarian and semi-dependent buffer prison state between its border and South Korea.
In exchange for regime existence (Kim dynasty pay off) and the buffer gulag (China pay off), the Kim regime must get rid of its nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons manufacturing capabilities.
The pay off to South Korea, Japan and the U.S. is that North Korea can no longer threaten Seoul, Tokyo, Honolulu and San Francisco with nuclear immolation.
Ah, the deadly fine print: Assuring denuclearization will require a very intrusive, long term, take your shorts off, take your shoes off, spread your glutes, check your hair for lice, open every cave, every bunker, every laboratory, every crevice verification regimen.
Call it maximum verification.
If North Korea balks at maximum verification, what happens next?….
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Donald Trump IS getting some credit for the Korea movement …..
I’ll wait..
But on face value he should get some approval
I just saw Trump speaking in Michigan
The crowd is chanting ‘Nobel….Nobel’….
Trump also just announced that Republicans will keep the House next year….
But you have look at his moves as the result of brinkmanship bullshit….
Trump is beginning to troll impeachment as a way to juice up base…
This IS why Democratic leaders do NOT want to be talking about the subject….
I listen to all the talk but I still see nothing even remotely conclusive to even considering impeachment.
I’m not into throwing that word around with abandon.
Yeah I’ve heard talk about Obstruction of Justice.First of all that is a very nebulous term loaded with “state of mind” arguments and is difficult to prove.Maybe Trump did commit that offense but it certainly hasn’t been proven yet.
Are there a lot of things that happened that “could” point in that direction?Undoubtedly there are ,but they have not been fleshed out yet.
Indeed ,Muellers investigation so far points more in the direction of matters that happened before Trump became President.
I take a back seat to no one on my opposition to Trump ,but this “impeachment “ talk needs to slow down.Besides, why anyone would want that Right Wing loon Mike Pence ad President is beyond me.I guess it’s because he doesnt Twitter or talk as wild as Trump,but his politics are as much or even more distasteful to me.
I agree….
We’ve discussed the remote cahnces of a grand jury indictment being handed up….
But?
I DO see that a case could be made for obstruction with actions against Comey and the lying episode based on the Air Force One converastion with staff and Kushner…
Conspiracy charges might also apply….
But yea…
It would be have to be a ‘slam duck’ for Mueller and Rosenstein to make the throwdown…
My feeling is though?
Financial manuevering is gonna be the main problem for Trump…
In that direction?
My feeling is Mueller might be on firmer ground to go after Trump, Cohen and others….
Indicting others and showing connections to Trump…..
Actually ?
Could Mueller drop civil charges on Trump?
The DOJ rule I believe just says a President cannot be charged with a crime….(It is not clear it right)
With the Clinton case?
President do have to answer for Civil issues…
Ditto, ditto, Jack.
Who knows what the future will reveal, any more than we knew at the beginning where Watergate or Whitewater (named for a failed real-state project and not anything sexual) would lead.
But what we know so far doesn’t even begin to approach the High Crimes and MIsdemeanours for which the Constitution permits impeachment, conviction, or disqualification from office. Even without the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt required, quite rightly, for a criminal prosecution, conviction and punishment.
I would actually like a combination of Mueller and Trump fuckup’s to push to quit
Thereby freeing the country of an infection….
I still That is more than possible if the Dem’s get majorities in both houses or Congress….
Of course the Russianncould always release spoiler video from Trump’s Moscow escapades…
THAT would be rough ride for Trump hold on to….