Posted on 06/25/2018 8:11:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
North Korea has apparently chosen not to host its annual mass rally marking the end of a formative conflict with South Korea and its top partner the U.S., as President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un pursue unprecedented diplomatic ties between their nations.
Every June 25, North Korea remembers the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, known as the Day of Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism. The event sets off a month of patriotic displays that conclude with the Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War, a holiday commemorating the signing of an armistice that put an end to three bloody years of fighting between communist North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea on July 27, 1953. Reports of U.S. war crimes and indiscriminate bombing of Korean cities throughout the conflict has been the basis of North Korean propaganda targeting the U.S. for more than six decades.
While no North Korean officials have publicly discussed whether or not the country planned to organize any events as the date approached, the Associated Press's staff in Pyongyang confirmed Monday that the long-running display of fervent nationalism and anti-imperialism would not be held this year.
The move would be the latest in a series of rare North Korean gestures that both Trump and Kim have said were aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and establishing peace that has eluded the region since the Korean War, which next month's national holiday was designed to memorialize.
Despite threatening to annihilate one another throughout 2017, Trump and Kim have since forged a fragile, historic relationship that produced the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean supreme leader earlier this month.
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I can’t tell you how many people are praying (or have been for 70 years) for peace in Korea and for the successful summit.
Leftists outraged, film at eleven...
The war started the month that I graduated from high school—————astonishing to see this happen.
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Libs would be circle jerking each other if bammy or hitlery would have made this happen.
Never see anything praising Trump from deep libsoc media or socialists of the uniparty.
CNN will criticize Kim for this, since it may give Trump legitimacy back home.
This may seem like a small thing to America but it is monumental in its symbolism.
NeverTrump hardest hit.
No, instead they ginned up the border “crisis” to try to distract from it.
“North Korea Cancels Anti-USA Rallies”
George Soros and the American Democratic Party scramble to pick up the slack.
I still think this is a done deal and has been for months. Viva Trump.
I wish the left here would cancel their anti-USA rallies.
I think when Trump played that video for Kim, showing him his 2 choices were: Peace, prosperity and acclaim; or hellfire, ashes and death; Kim and his staff got the vision, and they left Singapore with a brand new attitude.
Looks like the China thaw to Nixon. I remember seeing on TV where the Chinese band played “The Star Spangled Banner” in welcome. Well sure they’ve done everything in a Chicom way but they never forgot who buttered enough of their socialist bread to make it possible, either.
China had to thaw before North Korea, its client, could.
It’s like Oceania canceling hate week.
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They’ll hold their own rally, regardless of what North Korea does.
They’re thinking, “Well, someones got to pick up the slack.”
And they’re just the ones to do it.
That’s for sure...
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