Carryfast:
Rob K:
Historic moment indeed but I think Trump is being played for a fool. I think that China are the puppet masters behind all this. Kim will find another mountain to hide his nukes in then invite Trump to do an inspection to prove that he’s being a good boy which in turn will give Kim the leverage he needs to tell Trump to move his forces out of South Korea. Trump won’t have any choice but to comply in he wants to maintain relations with North Korea. Trump pulling out of South Korea gives China exactly what they want because everyone knows the US presence in South Korea is nothing to do with North Korea, it’s all about keeping tabs on China.
^ This.
It will be interesting to watch how it plays out. Mike Pompeo is not a stupid man and has a lot of military and government experience under his belt. I’m pretty sure that he will have already realised the above could be the “game” well before any of us and already has a plan in place to counter any such shennanigans.
I do also think there’s probably an element of Kim genuinely wanting to turn over a new leaf and drag his country out of the dark ages. His two neighbouring countries are very technologically advanced and I can imagine that he fancies some of that for his own people.
Knowing Trump though, he’ll probably ■■■■ it all up by the end of the week by making some stupid tweet. 