So much bollox #TrumpKimSummit.
So much bollox #TrumpKimSummit.
So much blather.
Two awful men.
Trying to legitimise each other.
No commitment to: “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarmament.
Yes Trump is a showman", a transparently shit one.
Yes he's a salesman, a lying weaselly one.
This is a good, simple summary article, some highlights.
Key fact:
“Reaffirming the April 27, 2018, Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] commits to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”
Key finding:
— and on closer examination it, too, is empty blather. I can commit “to work towards” beating Roger Federer at Wimbledon, but that doesn’t mean that I will ever reach the goal.
Further:
The Singapore Declaration repeats virtually verbatim the pledge that North Korea made not only on April 27 but also on numerous other occasionsstretching all the way back to 1992. That’s right — North Korea has been promising to denuclearize for 26 years, and in that time it has not only acquired an estimated 60 nuclear weapons but also the ballistic missiles to deliver them.
Perhaps this time will be different and Kim really, truly means it. If so, we will find out soon enough, because he will agree to the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarmament
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/12/a-summit-without-substance/
So much blather.
Two awful men.
Trying to legitimise each other.
No commitment to: “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarmament.
Yes Trump is a showman", a transparently shit one.
Yes he's a salesman, a lying weaselly one.
This is a good, simple summary article, some highlights.
Key fact:
“Reaffirming the April 27, 2018, Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] commits to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”
Key finding:
— and on closer examination it, too, is empty blather. I can commit “to work towards” beating Roger Federer at Wimbledon, but that doesn’t mean that I will ever reach the goal.
Further:
The Singapore Declaration repeats virtually verbatim the pledge that North Korea made not only on April 27 but also on numerous other occasionsstretching all the way back to 1992. That’s right — North Korea has been promising to denuclearize for 26 years, and in that time it has not only acquired an estimated 60 nuclear weapons but also the ballistic missiles to deliver them.
Perhaps this time will be different and Kim really, truly means it. If so, we will find out soon enough, because he will agree to the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarmament
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/12/a-summit-without-substance/
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