Tonight brought an extraordinary triumph for American foreign policy under President Trump. You wouldn't know it to listen to the mainstream media, however. Here's what happened:
1. North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear weapons and missile testing. The North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un has received nothing in return for this suspension of testing. The US-South Korean joint military exercises will continue as scheduled. The sanctions on North Korea will remain in place. In other words, North Korea may well have blinked.
2. North Korea is also proposing a meeting directly between the NK leader and President Trump to discuss issues including the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Again, North Korea gets nothing in return for this.
3. President Trump has agreed to meet with the North Korean leader as a result of these action. The meeting will be arranged to take place some time by May.
If you read most mainstream media accounts, all you learn is that there will be a meeting between Trump and Kim Jung Un. Points 1 and 2 above -- which are the key to tonight's announcement -- somehow get mentioned very little, if at all.
Think about this. For the last year, the "experts" with whom the media has communicated have blasted Trump for putting pressure on the North Koreans, for insulting Kim with names like "little Rocket Man", for threatening military action against the NK's, and the like. These "experts" wanted to follow the old policies that had failed. The North Koreans are at most months away from having a nuclear armed missile that can hit essentially anywhere in the USA. All through the Obama years, the USA followed those failed policies, and the prospect of a nuclear North Korea just got closer and closer. It was Trump's maximum pressure on the NK's -- much derided by the "experts" -- that finally may have led to this breakthrough.
Now let's be clear. This may still be nothing more than a ruse by Kim to buy more time to work on the nukes and the missiles. We won't know that for a while. Without a doubt, however, we have moved from the Obama road which led only to disaster to the Trump road which may end with success. It's wonderful news, even if the media doesn't want to admit it.
1. North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear weapons and missile testing. The North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un has received nothing in return for this suspension of testing. The US-South Korean joint military exercises will continue as scheduled. The sanctions on North Korea will remain in place. In other words, North Korea may well have blinked.
2. North Korea is also proposing a meeting directly between the NK leader and President Trump to discuss issues including the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Again, North Korea gets nothing in return for this.
3. President Trump has agreed to meet with the North Korean leader as a result of these action. The meeting will be arranged to take place some time by May.
If you read most mainstream media accounts, all you learn is that there will be a meeting between Trump and Kim Jung Un. Points 1 and 2 above -- which are the key to tonight's announcement -- somehow get mentioned very little, if at all.
Think about this. For the last year, the "experts" with whom the media has communicated have blasted Trump for putting pressure on the North Koreans, for insulting Kim with names like "little Rocket Man", for threatening military action against the NK's, and the like. These "experts" wanted to follow the old policies that had failed. The North Koreans are at most months away from having a nuclear armed missile that can hit essentially anywhere in the USA. All through the Obama years, the USA followed those failed policies, and the prospect of a nuclear North Korea just got closer and closer. It was Trump's maximum pressure on the NK's -- much derided by the "experts" -- that finally may have led to this breakthrough.
Now let's be clear. This may still be nothing more than a ruse by Kim to buy more time to work on the nukes and the missiles. We won't know that for a while. Without a doubt, however, we have moved from the Obama road which led only to disaster to the Trump road which may end with success. It's wonderful news, even if the media doesn't want to admit it.
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