Summit may be the grand theater Kim needs to show his people

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 18, 2018 | Foster Klug, The Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

If North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was searching for the perfect propaganda set piece, something designed to show his people that he's a strong leader pushing inexorably for the long-delayed, long-promised prosperity they deserve, then visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in might be providing him with a unique opportunity.

Moon believes that his deep engagement with North Korea is crucial after last year's fears of war, when Washington reacted with fury to a torrent of ever-more-powerful North Korean weapons tests. He argues better ties with North Korea will help South Koreans, and the region, by settling the standoff over the North's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal designed to target the U.S. mainland.

But his engagement push, which includes bringing some of South Korea's most powerful business tycoons to Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, strikes some observers as also boosting Kim as he tries to show his citizens that he's pivoting to economic improvement and — crucial yet unspoken — raising his impoverished nation up to South Korea's level, after his claim last year to have completed his nuclear arsenal.

Throughout the first day of Moon's three-day trip to North Korea, the South Korean leader could be seen grinning broadly as he and Kim enjoyed the ecstatic reception of a Pyongyang that seemed to have been painted, polished and framed until it was the best possible version of itself — on the video that South Korean media traveling with Moon captured and beamed back to Seoul, at least....

[Fungi]

Foster Klug, a lug nut to the rescue with truth “unassailable!” Where do they get these clowns with these weird names? Then again, it is AP, a wholly owned subsidiary of the communist party.

[cba123]

For several months I had been quite impressed with the progress America and North Korea appeared to be making.

Then recently, not so much.

We will see. Trump seems to be on the right approach, although it seems unclear that Kim is being straight with him.

Maybe.

[Rockingham]

Kim can get as much nice video as he wants so long as he gives up his nukes and ICBMs.

[Vendome]

Leftist “embicilic” propaganda

Moon believes that his deep engagement with North Korea is crucial after last year’s fears of war, when Washington reacted with fury to a torrent of ever-more-powerful North Korean weapons tests.

Never gonna happen, unless DPRK managers wanna die...

We’ll make a deck of 52 and run em down