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You're all missing the trees for the forest. It's not about whether anyone believes NK media. It's that there's no way to know if they're lying. We know the little letter they signed which says nothing. We know the robust praise from trump to Kim. "He's a tough guy" when asked about murdering people, "He's talented" when asked about Kim being a dictator. The President of the USA is defending the dictator of North Korea tyranny. It doesn't even matter if they're lying. NK has enough real material to report that is uber positive for their Supreme Leader.
BTW: Trump says people, thousands apparently, asked him to bring their sons who died there during the war to be brought home to be buried. Isn't that amazing. Who knew parents of Korean War veterans had such longevity.
Spoiler Alert: It's just another example of him A) Lying B) using veterans as cheap prop.
Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Asked during an Air Force One interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier about meeting with a leader who is “clearly executing people”, Mr Trump lauded Mr Kim as a “tough guy” who had demonstrated his prowess by inheriting power as a young man.
“Hey, when you take over a country - tough country, tough people - and you take it over from your father, I don’t care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have - if you could do that at 27 years old, I mean, that’s one in 10,000 that could do that”, said Mr Trump, who is himself the scion of a powerful family.
“So he’s a very smart guy,” Mr Trump added. “He’s a great negotiator”.
Pressed by Mr Baier, who said Mr Kim has “done some really bad things”, Mr Trump responded that “so have a lot of other people”.
“I mean, I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done”, Mr Trump said.
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The largest obstacle in reaching an agreement with North Korea will be providing security assurances for Kim. The only way for North Korea to enjoy greater prosperity, which is what Trump is offering, is for the country to have greater contact with the outside world. That contact will bring with it the startling realization by North Koreans that they are not, as they have been told all their lives, citizens of the world's most prosperous and powerful country ruled by the world's most respected man. When they learn about greater freedoms in other places, they will throw Kim in jail.
Trump's mission is to assure Kim that the United States will continue to support Kim's brutal suppression of North Korea's population, which is estimated at 25 million. Think it through, and you will realize that it's not a sustainable promise. I bet Kim has thought it through.