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How did Trump convince Kim that a vase is a better idea?
The Hill ^ | 1/1/2020 | JOSEPH BOSCO

Posted on 01/01/2020 6:48:59 PM PST by bitt

The year 2019 has expired, along with Kim Jong Un’s promise/threat to send President Donald Trump “a Christmas gift” by the end of the year. Since the proffered holiday present was tied to North Korea’s demand that Washington lift sanctions for its nuclear program, it was widely interpreted by U.S. experts to portend an escalation in the negotiations standoff, such as a new long-range missile launch or even a nuclear test.

As Gift Day approached, Pyongyang increased its warnings with escalating rhetoric harkening back to the personal insult stage of the early Trump administration. Western concerns and tensions mounted amid preparations for a likely dramatic event and an appropriate response.

But it is now the last day of the year, and nothing untoward has been heard, seen, or detected from North Korea. Now the experts are asking why. What changed Kim’s mind about doing something provocative to get the president to bend?

Pending further insights into the dictator’s mind, we are left to speculate about possible explanations.

One is that it wasn’t a serious threat in the first place, just a geopolitical mind game, a gigantic bluff to panic the politically-beleaguered administration into lifting sanctions.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christmaspresent; gift; japan; kim; present; pyongyang; russia; trump; vase; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/01/2020 6:48:59 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/01/2020 6:49:07 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: bitt

Trump can read people. He’s had Kim Jong Un’s “M.O” from day one.


3 posted on 01/01/2020 6:53:20 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: bitt
Pending further insights into the dictator’s mind, we are left to speculate about possible explanations.

One is that it wasn’t a serious threat in the first place, just a geopolitical mind game, a gigantic bluff to panic the politically-beleaguered administration into lifting sanctions.

Or that the "reporters" are idiots and read far far more into this than ever existed.

4 posted on 01/01/2020 6:53:52 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: bitt

This is another reason a firm response is necessary in Baghdad. The message has more than one recipient.


5 posted on 01/01/2020 6:54:00 PM PST by marron
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To: bitt

Maybe Kim’s “gift” is not launching any missiles.


6 posted on 01/01/2020 6:55:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: marron

Excellent point...Things that make Kim say...”Oh crap”.


7 posted on 01/01/2020 6:56:15 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: marron

We are doing well, but can you imagine what a better place we would be in if the democrats were pro-American?


8 posted on 01/01/2020 7:07:10 PM PST by Cold Heart (.)
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To: bitt

Did Kim send Trump a vase or not?


9 posted on 01/01/2020 7:17:12 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Cold Heart

Sorry, I no can do.

I simply can’t imagine the democrats being pro-American.


10 posted on 01/01/2020 7:17:41 PM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: bitt

Trump probably sent Kim a Christmas card that has a photo of Kim’s head in a sniper crosshair, and that photo was taken like a few hours before haha. Anytime you want to play rocketman, Trump is waiting.


11 posted on 01/01/2020 7:20:17 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: TigersEye

I read online that a vase is usedl on graves for the dead in North Korea...maybe Trump was giving him a warning.


12 posted on 01/01/2020 7:21:35 PM PST by kiltie65
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To: bitt

As I mentioned before, they sent Kim a DVD with digital simulation of turning North Korea into hot molten glass.

Kim hated the ending and asked to view Miracle on 34th Street another time.


13 posted on 01/01/2020 7:25:27 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: kiltie65

Send me the vase of Kim Jong Un!

14 posted on 01/01/2020 7:30:45 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: bitt
Kim was given a choice to one two vases .

First was a nice cloisan vase to senfld to President Trump for Christmas

Second was a less ornate vase that President Trump could send to Korea to put whatever was left Kim’s ashes in

15 posted on 01/01/2020 7:47:30 PM PST by rdcbn ( Referentia)
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To: TigersEye

POTUS tweet next week:
“Where’s my nice vase?”


16 posted on 01/01/2020 7:52:11 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

:)

I was really hoping Kim would send him a vase and make lefty heads explode.


17 posted on 01/01/2020 7:55:37 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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Yeah, there's more to the whole "vase" thing than we're in on.

I'm good with letting DJT handle the whole thing.

18 posted on 01/01/2020 8:05:54 PM PST by skimbell
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To: TigersEye

That would be amazing.


19 posted on 01/01/2020 8:06:05 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Cold Heart

“ We are doing well, but can you imagine what a better place we would be in if the democrats were pro-American?”

OMG. Can you imagine where our economy and our foreign policy would be if the rats didn’t badmouths the president publicly overseas in front of our enemies? Can you imagine where we’d be if the rats and the media didn’t publicly threaten the President every day? Even if they just criticized in private and kept a unified front? It’s shameful. They revel in glee with any misfortune and beat down every victory. Our enemies receive aid and comfort from the rats and know they can just wait out the administration.


20 posted on 01/01/2020 8:13:19 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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