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Trump to Hold Second Summit With Kim Jong Un in February, U.S. Says
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet near the end of February for a second summit, despite evidence North Korea is advancing its nuclear weapons program.
The White House announced the summit and timing after Trump met Friday with Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to the North Korean leader and a former spy chief.
Trump's decision to go ahead with another in-person meeting -- further elevating Kim's global profile -- underscores the president's confidence that his personal involvement and negotiating skills can change the behavior of recalcitrant regimes in ways that traditional leverage and diplomacy, past U.S. leaders and his own emissaries could not.
Previously: President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea
President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @12:41AM (4 children)
"Most normal people hope Trump succeeds and continues on to the next excuse they have for existing."
Yeah!!! After all, last time Trump got a really nifty greeting card out of the deal. Don't knock progress all you haters!!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Sulla on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:15AM (3 children)
What do we have to lose from trying? If we fail we get the same result as we would have from not trying, so we might as well give it a shot. Trump wants to end the Korean war for one of two reasons - either so he can go down in the history books as the one that resolved North Korea, or so that he can open the "Kim and Moon Peace and Prosperity Trump International Hotel" in Pyongyang. Both of those are a small price to pay for peace. If we get peace in exchange for federal money buying Trump a hotel in every country in the world, thats a damn good deal. Typically our politicans line their pockets with war, like the Bidens and their connections to Ukrainian oil companies or the Bushs and Clintons and Iraqi oil companies. Trump on the other hand has his investments in real estate, and real estate doesn't really profit from war. Trump's own greed is the best hope this country has had since Nixon for peace.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:43PM (2 children)
Don't bother. The "democrats" love the military-industrial-complex and endless pointless wars now. There obviously isn't any logic behind people who can flip flop like that just due to what their authority figures tell them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:52PM (1 child)
Both sides of your corrupt system love the endless wars you guys start.
After all, it's not the children of the ruling class that fights and dies in them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @01:55AM
Yes, but the "republicans" were always in favor. The "democrats" used to pretend they weren't.