Trump to N. Korea’s Rocket Man – Denuclearization or No Deal

President Donald Trump remains open to meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in hopes of achieving denuclearization, the White House said, even as Pyongyang warned against any pressure to abandon its nuclear arsenal.

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“The President retains those objectives and remains open to engaging with Leader Kim to achieve a fully de-nuclearized North Korea.”

In other words, a strict restatement of the original terms. And really, the Hermit Kingdom is hardly in any position to be dictating terms here.

Here’s the funny bit:

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, said in remarks carried by state media that relations between Trump and her brother are “not bad.” However, she warned that any attempt to pressure North Korea to denuclearize would be viewed as “nothing but a mockery.”

If there is a nation on this planet that is well and truly deserving of mockery, it’s North Korea.

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The stunted little gargoyle dynasty is hobbling along; the North Korean people, by and large, are undernourished, undereducated, and brutally oppressed. Kim Jong Un remains the only fat guy in the country, which tells one all one needs to know about the supposed “egalitarianism” of communist states. On Tuesday, on this topic, I wrote:

You can always spot these kinds of regimes by looking at one thing: Look at the borders, and see which way the guns are facing. Free nations face outward, to keep people from coming in uncontrolled. In repressive regimes like North Korea, the guns face in to keep people from fleeing.

And yet, people are risking those machine guns to try to get away, because even rural China looks like a land of milk and honey compared to North Korea.

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They have nukes, yes. And no, they aren’t going to give them up. These nukes are literally the only reason anyone is willing to talk to this lunatic nation at all. Barring a regime change a a drastic reorganization of that nation’s government, they are going to remain a nuclear power. But that doesn’t mean that the United States, or indeed any nation of the West, should stop pressuring them over it.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump and his administration’s bold leadership, we are respected on the world stage, and our enemies are being put on notice.

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