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North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim summit over South Korea-US military drills
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-korea-threatens-cancel-trump-12541844 ^ | 5/15/18 | Mirror

Posted on 05/15/2018 11:39:51 AM PDT by BOARn

North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim summit over South Korea-US military drills

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; korea; north; northkorea; summit; threatens
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Let’s get together and send Shep off the air.
Or, tell Fox we are getting THEM off our TV (and streaming and smartphones and all that). Who likes that p.o.s. anyway besides his boyfriend.


61 posted on 05/15/2018 4:27:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: Innovative

A chilling thought——
1) accident collapsed the Nork nuke testing caves.
2) China called in lil kim and told him: no choice, you stop testing because radioactivity has seeped into China. The End.
3)Kim looked like he was graciously suing for peace and we rejoiced at how good Trump was.
4) Kim turns bold and oppositional again and the leftist media goes wild with ecstacy that Trump is a failure.


62 posted on 05/15/2018 4:31:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: BOARn

I’m sure the Chinese will talk to chubsey ubsey again.
It’s obvious that HE WAS WARNED!


63 posted on 05/15/2018 4:57:44 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Vaquero

Count on it.


64 posted on 05/15/2018 5:29:49 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: DoodleDawg
Why?

Because they'd been through many preliminaries and scheduled a meeting with the possibility of ending a dangerous standoff that has been around since the 1950s. It is pointless to continue joint US/SK military maneuvers two or three weeks before an historic meeting and opporunity.

There comes a times to stop chest beating and muscle flexing. If the negotiations fail, there is all of the future to go back to the old ways in Korea.

65 posted on 05/15/2018 6:40:37 PM PDT by Will88
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To: BOARn

Saber rattling.


66 posted on 05/15/2018 7:05:07 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Don Corleone

Fake News, just regular diplomacy Kabuki.

It’s happening...
https://www.nknews.org/pro/170-buildings-under-construction-at-mammoth-new-north-korean-tourist-resort/


67 posted on 05/15/2018 7:05:36 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: TnTnTn

The breaker bars are in high orbit. Project Thor. Rods from God. One demolished a mountain. Think about what a half dozen could do. 40 feet by one foot of ceramic coated tungsten hitting at 44,000 fps. That is faster than radar can image it. No one knows we did it, well except the Chinese and Russians. If you shoot you know that is some major damage as in nuke level. It is asteroid level damage. It is a head to the hills kinda thing if you have any idea it is coming.


68 posted on 05/15/2018 7:23:17 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Williams

I doubt it..Kim just gets his pants in a knot easily...however the meeting will happen between he and Trump I understand now. As usual the media jumps too fast or purposely creates havoc and runs with it.


69 posted on 05/15/2018 7:56:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: mrsmith
Kims certainly not building this 'huge' resort complex near his new airport is for N.Koreans to vacation!

Expected opening is July 2018...I suspect they will be using it for Dignitaries, Businessmen etc.. once N.Korea opens and the Corporations begin to roll in.


70 posted on 05/15/2018 8:10:46 PM PDT by caww
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To: BOARn

We are but one angry late night tweet away from this whole thing imploding.

Trump will lose face, get screwed and be embarrassed after all the raised expectations. And you do not do this in the public arena to Donald J. Trump.

Yep. Twitter storm clouds on the horizon.

It will be contrary to what his foreign policy and national security staff will urge.

(But it won’t necessarily be a bad thing)


71 posted on 05/15/2018 8:11:58 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Easy does it.)
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To: caww
Kims got a 'huge' operation going on for this resort......and it isn't because N.Koreans will go there. They're working 24/7 to complete by July....


72 posted on 05/15/2018 8:15:25 PM PDT by caww
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To: DoodleDawg

The military maneuvers should be doubled in size and duration. Increase the pressure on the crazy commie.


73 posted on 05/15/2018 8:38:57 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: ASA Vet

Concur


74 posted on 05/15/2018 8:48:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Easy does it.)
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To: BOARn

Kim Gye-Gwan officialized the threat just about two hours ago, in a dispatch from Pyongyang. FReepers who have followed NK issues for years in an intelligent manner here in the forum will be rather familiar with this name.


75 posted on 05/15/2018 8:54:39 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Easy does it.)
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To: BOARn

Jockying for position, and trying to save the almighty Face that’s so important in Asian cultures.


76 posted on 05/16/2018 3:12:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Sacajaweau

They were suppose to have been in March, after the Olympics.


77 posted on 05/16/2018 3:27:46 AM PDT by windowdude
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To: Williams

Could be, or he is destroying evidence. I still think we hit that nuke testing site and he has to destroy it or Trump won’t get the Nobel.


78 posted on 05/16/2018 4:04:54 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: AmericanInTokyo; TigerLikesRooster; caww; ASA Vet; nuconvert

Is this plan B:

A North Korean delegation has visited Beijing to learn about China’s experience in economic reform and opening up, the foreign ministry said Tuesday (May 15), the latest diplomatic outreach by the isolated regime.

The delegation came to “learn about the achievements of China’s domestic economic development and reform and opening-up process, and promote an exchange of experience between the two parties on governance issues,” Lu said.

Analysts have said Kim’s promise last month to build “socialist economic construction” could herald more Chinese-style economic reforms, which transformed the communist-led country into the world’s second largest economy.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-delegation-visited-beijing-to-learn-about-chinas-reforms-foreign

While this is plan A:
https://twitter.com/netgeek_0915/status/991478008841056256 ?


79 posted on 05/16/2018 6:11:56 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
Kim's dad, Kim Jong-il, tried it, too. But there were some problems. First, Kim Jong-il really tried to open Macau style special district in Shinuiju, but China torpedoed it. The story at the time is that China feared that Shinuiju would suck in investment money which otherwise go to Manchurian economic development. Burned by Chinese, he made long trans-Siberian tour to meet Putin, and cultivating close relationship with Russia. In the end, China reached out to Jong-il. NK and China patched up their relationship. However, he was cool to later China-led investment drive in NK. NK picked Chinese businessmen clean and kicked them out of country. I suspect he was not about to cede his power to "market." Market generates wealth, and it is basically Chinese money. It could create another power center, which he may not control.

This time Xi is strong-arming Kim into doing things the Chinese way. I think Kim Jong-un still counts on S. Korean gov to revive economic investment in N. Korea. However, since U.S. leans hard on SK, it is not a sure thing. Even more so, if Kim is going to rebuff U.S. proposal and push for drastically scaled-down denuclearization.

I think Kim still hopes that SK can deliver enough goods to him so that he does not have to entirely rely on China.

I think Plan A was that N. Korea become an independent free agent neither tied to China nor to U.S., with his nuclear arsenal ready. Play off one against the other, and get money from everybody. In the meantime, steadily advancing his project of defacto takeover of S. Korea. A kind of grand dream but China stomped on it hard.

80 posted on 05/16/2018 6:43:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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