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GrammarCheck:
Donald Trump snared headlines across the world by announcing yesterday he would meet with North Korea, breaking with years of American policy that held such a meeting could only happen if North Korea made concessions on its nuclear program first. It turns out Trump’s foreign policy masterstroke did not come as the result of a Metternichtian calculation but instead a completely spontaneous outburst.


It sounds from this account that Trump had no real idea that North Korea has always wanted a face-to-face meeting with the U.S. president, and the U.S. has always imposed conditions. That would certainly be the logical interpretation of this account, given that, in the last week, Trump has confused North Korea with the other, extremely different South Korea, and demanded a laughably tiny $1 billion trade concession from China when he was supposed to demand $100 billion. It certainly appears Trump believed, in the moment, that North Korea had not been interested in a meeting until then, so he needed to take the deal before they changed their mind. Whatever. Art of the Deal.

So then the administration rushed out its breakthrough announcement. But now the administration has to slowly back away without quite acknowledging it is doing so. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters today Trump won’t meet with North Korea unless they offer concrete concessions beforehand:



Of course, that’s the old policy. Which means Trump shot off his mouth and got excited and then his advisers had to explain to him why he can’t do that. Or maybe they haven’t explained it to him and are backing out without his permission. Whatever the explanation, the major policy change Trump announced appears to be completely moot because he plays the president on television but isn’t really president.

TheSorrowfulMan:
North Korea have 10 warheads while the US have more than 2000 warheads. You are daft

Trump is meeting him because Kim is seeking for reunification with the South

obixcel:
What the fake media will not tell you or admit to is that

President Trump's pressure on Kim and North Korea as a whole is working (Sanctions and tougher stances) - and some were saying he was about going to war (possibly nuclear) with NK and that he was mentally deranged?. This man is intelligent, too smart, knows and plays the game at a higher level than the so called average politicians in Washington., and most importantly he knows how to get things done. What may come out of the meeting? we can never tell, but he's on track. All we want is PEACE at the end of the day. Hate him or love him Yes! he is unfiltered and not politically correct, but he loves his country and only wants what is best for it. If only our politicians can take a cue from this.

Throwback:
Did you celebrate Obama for normalising relations with Cuba, when he opined that all sanctions levelled against Cuba by previous US regimes were useless so far?