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Serious question. Can he let China be the negotiator and take the credit, or is he going to attack NK no matter what? If he and the GOP condemn Iran and threaten them because they are upset that the pact made by Obama is working, how much worse must the feel that a non-western "money-manipulating" country is in the diplomatic driver's seat?
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)"chemistry" that got China to deal with NK.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Trump will blame someone else, regardless of who is really responsible.
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)I think Trump will go after NK no matter what, even if t here is diplomatic progress..
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That is a certainty. There are a whole lot of other countries I would rather he attack (I can't believe I just wrote that ), countries that do not have nuclear capability.
JI7
(89,247 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He called out China's "unfair" trade practices at the same time he was making business deals with them to produce his crap. I'm not sure he even remembers that he has business ties with China.
JI7
(89,247 posts)ivanka got some deal with the chinese president visit already.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)They mostly kill their own people, which for some reason does not bother us as much as when Iraq or Syria do it. They have arrested a bunch of Americans in recent days, which Trump (and America) have not seen fit to respond to. Are these the hostilities?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)nuclear buildup, that sort of crap. The rhetoric they've been spewing about how they are aren't afraid of war. tRump buys into it and responds in kind.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Set over the Sound of Music song that is coincidentally similar
The New Year brings new problems to the Bush administration, mainly because of Kim Jong Il, the ruler of North Korea.
(As sung by Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and President George W. Bush)
Powell:
What do we see
That guy named Kim
He's acting without care
Rumsfeld:
He's starting all his weapons plants
We found out, he don't care
Rice:
Now things aren't so simple
With Saddam, they're quite a pair
Powell, Rumsfeld, Rice:
So what are we gonna do with this Kimmy?
Powell:
When he says that he'll do this thing
We know that it ain't for real
Rumsfeld:
He always lies 'bout everything
Rice:
We shouldn't cut a deal
Bush:
From all of which, I take it,
That you very firmly feel
All:
That Kim is just a little bit crazy!
Rice:
I'd like to say a word in his behalf.
That Kim, he is quite fat!
All:
How do you solve a problem like Korea?
How do you deal with nuts and bring them down?
How do you deal with the ruler of Korea?
Powell:
This Kim, he should go
Rumsfeld:
A big fat buffoon
Rice:
A clown!
All:
Maybe we ought to send all of our bombers
After we've bombed Saddam into the sand
Powell:
But for now we're gonna say
That his nukes uh uh, no way
Rumsfeld:
Or else that Kim will end up like Saddam
Rice:
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Korea?
Bush:
No, we won't give in to this nut's demands
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And it's funny you should have set the scene in Iraq under Bush because I was drawing the parallels last night. The removal of one dangerous dictator versus another. I want to state that I have absolutely no problem removing Kim Jong Il by force. However, I have a major problem with his removal being orchestrated by the tRump administration.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)They got his brother in an airport. Ivanka and the kids fly commercial airlines. If Kim Jong is willing to kill his own people (brother of Dear Leader being considered one's own people), it is not a stretch to see him going after a US President's own people.
JI7
(89,247 posts)than going after one of your own .
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Yes. Yes it is quite a stretch.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)It is more of a stretch? Not for many.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)So anything is possible really.