Trump's breakup letter with Kim Jong Un leaves experts puzzled
Dear Kim Jong Un: It's just not working out between us. Sorry. Hope we don't have to nuke you. Please call.
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump canceled his upcoming peace summit in Singapore with North Korea's leader with an open letter that veered between sentimentality and threats of nuclear war, leaving experts to puzzle over what will happen next.
"We greatly appreciate your time, patience and effort with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions" about the upcoming meeting, Trump's missive began.
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"We were informed that the meeting was requested by North Korea, but that to us is totally irrelevant," Trump wrote of the summit. The problem, Trump continued, is that Kim's "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement made a summit "inappropriate."
So, summit canceled. Trump added a dramatic flourish: "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used."
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"I felt a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me, and ultimately, it is the only dialogue that matters," Trump wrote, thanking Kim for recently releasing three American hostages.
"Some day, I look very much forward to meeting you. ... If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write."
The letter didn't win any points for style among North Korea experts after its release.
"It sounds like a 13-year-old's stream of consciousness in a breakup letter sent from overnight camp," Wendy Sherman, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs in the Obama administration, said in an MSNBC appearance.
" 'By the way, call me. I loved you. We loved each other.' ... It is a very strange kind of diplomacy," she said.
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