Posted on 06/18/2018 8:25:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We've made much of what President Donald Trump failed to get from Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
Those failures would include steps toward verifiable irreversible denuclearization -- and a guarantee of an end to human rights abuses. Those are just a couple of the major issues.
Then there's what he gave away: A sloppy salute and the upper hand in what should have been the toughest negotiation of his life. Negotiations held with an insecure hermit dictator who was said by South Korean intelligence sources to have ordered the murder of his half brother.
In South Korea, however, the prism is different. Discussions center less on Trump's achievements or lack of them, or his failures to live up to his own word, and more on the possibilities his summit opened up -- in particular his new relationship with Kim. Which is why they welcome phone calls between the pair.
Singapore was not a failure for many in South Korea, but an opportunity.
According to a Gallup survey of more than 1,000 people two days after the summit, two thirds of the population said they think the Kim/Trump meeting was a success. Only one in 10 thought it a failure.
Among Trump's many giveaways was his phone number. It was "a very direct number," he told journalists at the White House on Friday. And it was given to the man who only months earlier he called "little rocket man" and who called him a "dotard."
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in's special adviser, Moon Chung-in, told me he believes the bond built between the two leaders in Singapore will "allow them to call each other up if there are problems."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at weny.com ...
All talk of failure/success is simply too premature.
Wait another year and we’ll find out where all these is leading to.
Who said it was?
Trump has ‘em pegged! They ARE total frauds at CNN!
Saw who was writing it and quit reading...already new what it was going to say.
“...Trump’s achievements or lack of them, or his failures to live up to his own word...”
What a bunch of typical dung. Trump HAS been living up to his own word - just not what NWO/Leftist/Obama-groupies wanted.
“a guarantee of an end to human rights abuses.”
I didn’t hear about that from CNN.
CNN just can’t bring themselves to believe what the rest of the world already knows.
They ARE IDIOTS...............
I guess POTUS Trump should have sent Kim a Pallet of Euros, Swiss Francs and Gold. Then CNN would have called it a success.
Maybe that's because they aren't viewing this with hyperpartisan glasses on.
I get so sick of the political climate here these days, it ruins everything, and yes, I even include conservatives who do that too. Thing is, conservatives dont control the news or mass media, so when its liberals doing it, it is far, far, worse....
what fucking imbeciles call it a failure ???
oh ... leftists (by bad)
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