Will There be War wt N Korea next 4 years

[RedDenver]

22 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I'm reading Brennan's tweet as needing to get rid of both CBW and nukes. Not sure where the second tweet is getting that.

[BigRedBuster]

10 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

I'm reading Brennan's tweet as needing to get rid of both CBW and nukes. Not sure where the second tweet is getting that.

The first one is a very oddly worded statement.

 

The second tweet is obviously reading into the statement what might not have been meant.  Not sure why Pompeo didn't just say, "....North Korea getting rid of its chemical biological weapons, nuclear weapons and arsenal and missiles."

 

But, adding the other words in makes it sound somewhat like the how the second tweet is implying.

[sho]

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

The first one is a very oddly worded statement.

 

The second tweet is obviously reading into the statement what might not have been meant.  Not sure why Pompeo didn't just say, "....North Korea getting rid of its chemical biological weapons, nuclear weapons and arsenal and missiles."

 

But, adding the other words in makes it sound somewhat like the how the second tweet is implying.

 

I read that first tweet as 'you can't threaten us with your Nukes' not 'you can't have them'

[knapplc]

More Republicans are pimping Donald Trump for the Nobel Prize. 

 

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and a group of fellow governors are backing President Donald Trump's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing what they called Trump's "transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula."

 

In a letter this week to Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen, McMaster and six fellow governors wrote that Trump's "firm stance against nuclearization, coupled with his willingness to engage one-on-one with Pyongyang, has succeeded in opening new avenues of cooperation, friendship and unity between the two Koreas - and the rest of the world."

 

Other signatories to the governors' letter include Guam Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo; Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant; Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer; Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey; West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice; and Maine Gov. Paul LePage.

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

Might want to hold off on that.

 

 

[TGHusker]

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Might want to hold off on that.

 

 

Leave it for John Bolton to screw things up on the yellow brick road.   - Article doesn't mentioned him but seems like a war hawk kind of thing to do just prior to big negotiations.

[knapplc]

The US and South Korea have been holding this "Max Thunder" joint exercise for more than a decade now. North Korea knows it's coming, it is scheduled every year, it is NOT some new "provocation" that the Norks are trying to make it out to be. 

 

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Moiraine]

Did Trump already win the Nobel Peace prize and can we have take-backsies?

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Danny Bateman]

Live look in at John Bolton in the White House:

 

[Danny Bateman]

Thread:

 

 

TL;DR: NoKo are the ones actually playing chess, while Donald is being caught flat-footed playing Chutes & Ladders... poorly.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[commando]

cartoons really do capture this administration well

 

[TGHusker]

As I suspected, Bolton had something to do to this. 

OK imagine you are Mr Kim-  you hear Bolton comparing NK to Lybia.  Bolton is already hated by NK for his comments during the GWB administration. Now Kim looks at Lybia and the ending of Daffy Duck Qaddafi's final demise and wants no part of it.  Remember this is after Qaddafi had denounced terrorism after what he saw GWB did wt Iraq but our next admin supported the arab spring uprising leading to his gruesome demise.    Trump is stupid to let Bolton anywhere close to these negotiation or to say  a word on it - Bolton is worse than a bull in a china shop.   

https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-threatens-scrap-trump-184802285.html

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Kim Kye-gwan, North Korea's deputy foreign minister, warned on Wednesday that Pyongyang was not interested in talks that would pressure the rogue state to "unilaterally" give up its nuclear programme, taking aim at "unbridled remarks" by John Bolton, the US national security adviser, and other high-ranking White House officials. 

In a statement issued by the North Korean Central News Agency [KCNA], Mr Kim took issue in particular with Mr Bolton's references to the so-called Libya model of nuclear abandonment and his statements on "complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation."

Mr Kim claimed the remarks cast doubt on America's sincerity, underlining that his country was not Libya, which met a "miserable fate."

He added: "This is not an expression of intention to address the issue through dialogue. It is essentially a manifestation of awfully sinister moves to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq which had [sic] been collapsed due to yielding the whole of their countries to big powers."

 

 

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North Korea analysts have cautioned that the undignified, brutal death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, may be foremost on Kim Jong-un's mind ahead of talks on denuclearisation. 

Several also pointed to Mr Bolton's fractious history with North Korea when he was appointed by Mr Trump in March.

In 2003, North Korea refused to participate in multilateral talks if Mr Bolton was present after he labelled then leader Kim Jong-il a “tyrannical dictator”, a memory which the regime invoked on Wednesday.

"We do not hide our feelings of repugnance towards him," said Mr Kim, warning the Trump administration to remember the lessons of the past. 

 

 

1 hour ago, commando said:

cartoons really do capture this administration well

 

The imagination some people have --- how appropriate.