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 think you mean Obama reversed at the end of his presidency
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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.
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.
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
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtDltJC1-w
How old are you again?
I want to know where a young Korean female gets her learning on world politics.
In Korea, college, self initiated research....?
I will be right -- watch ....
Answer me, dammit. It's for research purposes.
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.
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.
The normalization of relations is meaningful in and of itself, but I doubt any meaningfuly disarmament happens as a result.
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.
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.
South Koreans skeptical of North Korea's promises; want to see proof
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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.
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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He gets more big breasted hot milfs than you do.
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