Guess no more war games in the Korean Peninsula. Are we going to have them on the Canadian border now?
Cuba did not have nuclear weapons for 50 years when Obama initiated normalization.I find the idea that North Korea should be giving anything up in order to have a discussion exceptionalist and symptomatic of a Cold War style of diplomacy. This isn't much different from when Obama opened the pathway to Cuba, which his opponents derided (and Trump largely reversed).
I think you mean Obama reversed at the end of his presidencyCuba did not have nuclear weapons for 50 years when Obama initiated normalization.
Are you implying its not meaningful? That's a pretty strong statement. Or just that meaningful hasn't been backed up yet?I'm very fascinated by the narratives of Trump fans who think this is meaningfu
Nixon saw China as a strategic play of reducing Soviet alliances.Are you implying its not meaningful? That's a pretty strong statement. Or just that meaningful hasn't been backed up yet?
The meeting is tantamount to Nixon meeting Mao, granted less future potential from the DPRK versus China. But the parallel is appropriate in the sense of normalizing relations.
I can't imagine that this isn't meaningful, even if expectations for an overnight change should be tempered.
How old are you again?Nixon saw China as a strategic play of reducing Soviet alliances.
China and Russia see North Korea as a strategic play of reducing American alliances. Pretty sure North Korea also wants that but not before taking any freebies and goodwill gestures you may send their way.
I want to know where a young Korean female gets her learning on world politics.Nixon saw China as a strategic play of reducing Soviet alliances.
China and Russia see North Korea as a strategic play of reducing American alliances. Pretty sure North Korea also wants that but not before taking any freebies and goodwill gestures you may send their way.
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I'm contesting the ways in which it's meaningful. There is literally no comparison to draw between Nixon's visit to China, for example. At present this is mostly rhetorical diplomacy. We have yet to see what it will do to alter geopolitics or what it means especially on the penninsula. I think opponents of Trump have tried to cast it as an empty or ill thought out gesture while his fans have tried to cast it as transformative. Diplomacy is a messy business and there's still a lot of work to be done. Symbollically, at least, the meeting has great power around the world.Are you implying its not meaningful? That's a pretty strong statement. Or just that meaningful hasn't been backed up yet?
The meeting is tantamount to Nixon meeting Mao, granted less future potential from the DPRK versus China. But the parallel is appropriate in the sense of normalizing relations.
I can't imagine that this isn't meaningful, even if expectations for an overnight change should be tempered.
Do you have any public opinion evidence to back up that claim? I've been interested to see some empirical work on exactly this question.Most Koreans do not care and have excused the North as a lost cause.
Why should we thank Moon for initiating something that the majority of his citizens don't want?
The normalization of relations is meaningful in and of itself, but I doubt any meaningfuly disarmament happens as a result.Are you implying its not meaningful? That's a pretty strong statement. Or just that meaningful hasn't been backed up yet?
The meeting is tantamount to Nixon meeting Mao, granted less future potential from the DPRK versus China. But the parallel is appropriate in the sense of normalizing relations.
I can't imagine that this isn't meaningful, even if expectations for an overnight change should be tempered.
Obama should have learnt that they would hate on him regardless of what he did. Instead he kept trying to find common ground, or making concessions, and got jackshit in return.Keep in mind that it was wisely never Obama's intent to have a face to face meeting like this.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtDltJC1-w
Only 31 percent of South Korean households turned in to watch the summit. It was a bigger deal in America than it was in South Korea. Most younger people don't care or want reunification and the people who are older people who either remember Korea as a whole or lived through post war effects on the peninsula and believe a normalization/reunification is the only way to ensure peace. I would like reunification but I'm skeptical it will happen resulting from Moon or this summit.Do you have any public opinion evidence to back up that claim? I've been interested to see some empirical work on exactly this question.
Kelly is a vocal opponent of Trump and regularly suggests the president is stupid and doesn't know anything about Korea which I have already debunked. He has insightful analysis but he's not without his personal political leanings either.I'm contesting the ways in which it's meaningful. There is literally no comparison to draw between Nixon's visit to China, for example. At present this is mostly rhetorical diplomacy. We have yet to see what it will do to alter geopolitics or what it means especially on the penninsula. I think opponents of Trump have tried to cast it as an empty or ill thought out gesture while his fans have tried to cast it as transformative. Diplomacy is a messy business and there's still a lot of work to be done. Symbollically, at least, the meeting has great power around the world.
Worth following the twitter and writings of Robert Kelly (Dad whose kids trolled him live on CNN) for some sober analysis.
At that time the public was very hesitant to want to open another can of worms. Obama had to deal with trying to reeling the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan then Syria. Poor Obama.
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