CousinsCowgirl84 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 On 2/24/2019 at 8:35 PM, visionary said: sick burn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Vietnam deports Kim Jong-un impersonator ahead of summit A Kim Jong-un impersonator has been deported from Vietnam ahead of the real North Korean leader's meeting with US President Trump in Hanoi this week. Hong Kong resident Howard X staged a fake summit with Trump impersonator Russell White last week. The two were later held for questioning by Vietnamese police and told to cease all their political jesting. Howard X says officials have since told him his visa is "invalid", but says he has received no further explanation. "Satire is a powerful weapon against any dictatorship. They are scared of a couple of guys that look like the real thing," Howard X, who was wearing a black suit and thick black glasses in the style of Kim Jong-un, told reporters. He and Mr White took part in a faux summit in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, telling reporters they intended to scale down North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Kim Jong Un took a laborious 2.5-day train ride to meet Trump in Vietnam, and it could be because he's too embarrassed to borrow a plane from China North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is taking a 2,000-mile, 2-1/2-day train ride to meet US President Donald Trump in Vietnam this Wednesday, most likely to save face because he doesn't want to ask China to lend him a plane. Kim boarded his family's armored train at Pyongyang Station on Saturday evening, and he arrived in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on Tuesday morning, the day before his summit is scheduled there with Trump. Kim left his train at Dong Dang, a Vietnamese town by the Chinese border, early Tuesday morning and traveled the last 105 miles or so to Hanoi by car. ... While Kim's laborious, three-day train ride undoubtedly gave him a good look at China's cities and countryside, experts say his reason for the journey more likely has to do with pride than with tourism. Last year, Kim borrowed a Boeing 747 plane from Air China, the airline majority-owned by the Chinese state, to get himself to Singapore in June for his first summit with Trump. His 40-year-old, Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-62 plane was deemed unsafe for the voyage at the time. Kim's use of a Chinese plane last year highlighted his apparent reliance on Beijing, which didn't have any delegates at Singapore but saw its global vision dominant at the summit. The North Korean leader did not appreciate remarks about his reliance on China last year, Cheng Xiaohe, a North Korea expert at Beijing's Renmin University, told The New York Times. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malapropismic Depository Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 https://twitter.com/dennisrodman/status/1100919738920824832 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cooked Crack Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Trump a real scumbag. He'll take the word of any dictator. I feel bad for the parents of Otto. Your son was captured and tortured to death and now the President is carrying water for his executioner. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsburySkinsFan Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 ****ing amateurs. Any politico knows that these summits are NOT the place agreements are found, that work is ALL in the pre-game. Trump wanted to look Presidential and KJU wanted the attention KJU got what he wanted Trump looks like a loser. Thanks again Republicans for this wonderful failure of American diplomatic leadership. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 At least trump didn’t cave to all of kim’s demands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 23 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: At least trump didn’t cave to all of kim’s demands. . . . this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 25 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: At least trump didn’t cave to all of kim’s demands. Having the meeting in the first place is a total failure in diplomacy. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 9 minutes ago, Corcaigh said: Having the meeting in the first place is a total failure in diplomacy. It literally just makes his position stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 9 minutes ago, Corcaigh said: Having the meeting in the first place is a total failure in diplomacy. Well, that is 100 percent a matter of opinion and I 100 percent disagree with you. Trump doing no research or having his diplomats do zero pregame work is a failure, but having no preconditions tiba meating between two leaders of countries is not.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just now, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Well, that is 100 percent a matter of opinion Its not though. If you cant see how much Kim has gained since Trump has been in office then you are not looking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, Llevron said: It literally just makes his position stronger. Which actually makes the chances of bringing him and his country under the realm of international law... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Which actually makes the chances of bringing him and his country under the realm of international law... Ok sure. You must have really thought this through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 47 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Which actually makes the chances of bringing him and his country under the realm of international law... Said absolutely nobody with actual experience in North Korea diplomacy and history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 17 minutes ago, mistertim said: Said absolutely nobody with actual experience in North Korea diplomacy and history. In all fairness this pretty much makes you perfect for the job these days. That and facial piercings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 1 hour ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: At least trump didn’t cave to all of kim’s demands. 1 hour ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Which actually makes the chances of bringing him and his country under the realm of international law... Cowgirl is a good little soldier. #convictedliar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Just observing that we really don't have a lot of leverage to use here, against a country that actually has nukes. (We didn't have much leverage before they had nukes). We can do sanctions. But they can't be too bad, because China doesn't want a starving NK on their border. And sanctions aren't that bad when the dictator doesn't give a **** if his people starve. We used to have the "meet the President" card to play. But Trump gave that one away. So let's not act like somebody else would have convinced the runt to give up his nukes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 38 minutes ago, mistertim said: Said absolutely nobody with actual experience in North Korea diplomacy and history. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/06/10/opinions/kim-jong-un-two-faces-conclusion-fareed/index.html summit has one benefit, regardless of the outcome. As the two sides meet and talk, it probably ends the idea of North Korea as crazy. Some of Washington's biggest mistakes have been when it has treated countries or governments as 10 feet tall and fanatical or lunatic. And for years, the conventional wisdom about North Korea was that it was unpredictable, irrational and thus undeterrable. After all, people said, just look at the bizarre rituals and crazy haircuts of its leaders. ... whatever the risks, it is certainly worth talking to North Korea. In doing so, we will realize that it is a rational regime. And we will also understand that if negotiations fail, it can be contained. North Korea is capable of being deterred. But it also capable of outwitting an American president, especially one too eager to make a deal. The risk that trump got outwitted by Kim in a one sided deal thst benefited Kim was real, but thus far trump hasn’t made a unfair deal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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