North Korea

Hankyroeh: "Matthew Pottinger was reported as saying in a recent closed-door meeting with US experts on Korean Peninsula issues that a limited strike on the North 'might help in the midterm elections.'"https://t.co/zm8QrkfRrD

— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) February 2, 2018

*gulp*

tremendous

Cool election strategy, I guess votes don't really matter if we are all dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/kim-jong-uns-sister-arrives-in-south-korea-for-winter-olympics

First member of the Kim family to visit S.Korea since the war.

Incredibly awkward to snub her at the pre-ceremony dinner, only to sit next to her at the ceremony

Well, she is a woman who is not his wife...

omg, you're right

was pence's wife with him? i mean, i think you're joking, but that's real, and...

jfc

Was joking, but who knows?

oh wait, pence's rule is that he can't have dinner with a woman alone without his wife being present as well. and there were other people at this dinner table to protect pence from the temptation of sex with the sister of kim jong-un. ok, we're all good here, eveything is normal

i bet they still fucked though

i think we’d all fuck mike pence given the chance

this deserves either to be posted in its own thread or in a better thread than this but i don't know the better option so here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-ivV-ps50

S Korea's Munhwa Ilbo reports Seoul and Pyongyang plan to announce an end to the military conflict between the two countries at the inter-Korean summit, citing an unidentified diplomatic security official https://t.co/R1c56pCvTh

— Joseph Kim (@josungkim) April 17, 2018

Wow

i mean this is just some random tweet, idk how reliable it is

It's about time, nobody wins in the current situation.

It's a lovely thought. I await confirmation.

I want to believe, there have been some signs lately that something like this could happen.

Good for Korea, but I'm sure Pyongyang would demand U.S. base closures. Less good for stated U.S. policy (at least under Obama) of pivoting to the Pacific/China.

Are we witnessing the rise of the new East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?

https://msh-1984.wikispaces.com/file/view/world1984.gif/305533582/704x352/world1984.gif

trump's done it again lads, credit where credit's due

this strikes me as fishy, what game is being played here? are we actually going to have donald trump end the korean war

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/asia/north-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-trump.html

i genuinely can't think of anything funnier than donald trump ending the korean war and getting a nobel peace prize as he's getting impeached for sex crimes and i hope it happens

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) April 19, 2018

are we actually going to have donald trump end the korean war

the cold war ended during George HW Bush's tenure, but he sure as hell wasn't the reason it ended when it did

It could absolutely be the case that the entire Korean peninsula was so horrified by the Trump admin's gross incompetence on this matter that they felt they needed to fast-track the peace process.

that's what I think

makes sense xp

The Trump years may well end up validating those people who cheer for the worst possible outcome because it's the only way to bring about real change, and thats a horrifying thought.

don't worry he'll say something to fuck it up in the next 48 hours

A 9.0 earthquake or a Category 5 hurricane always bring about real change. What I want is positive change.

It could absolutely be the case that the entire Korean peninsula was so horrified by the Trump admin's gross incompetence on this matter that they felt they needed to fast-track the peace process.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:03 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's what I think

― sleeve, Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

makes sense xp

― global tetrahedron

thing is, a trump supporter would replace "gross incompetence" with "American courage" and believe that trump's unpredictability and impulsive decisionmaking were the things that drove the change (that is, if a peace deal is struck in the first place)

It would validate idiots of all stripes

Yep, just like Reagan's military spending forced the Soviet Union to collapse, which is still the official story for righties.

last three posts totally otm

nah it's Trump's "Master Persuasion"...he knew what he was doing all along. it's you rubes, who are the stupid ones.

US-NK summit has a good chance of going badly (if it happens) given that each of the parties involved probably have diffferent understandings of what “denuclearize” means.

but imagine a world where trump is tweeting about what a fantastic man kim jong un is, how strong and so very smart, open to trade deals, etc

if that bizarro world also involved really peace then, well fuck, at least something positive has happened in the world, i will take it along with the rightwing bullshit that comes along with it

let's not just aim for peace. let's aim for really peace.

4/20

'juche philosophy is just terrific folks, just among the greatest, and something we're all gonna see more and more'

I'm as against giving Trump a win as anyone, but I've always hoped he'd fall ass-backwards into doing something positive and worthwhile while he otherwise shits up our democracy. If this winds up being that thing, I'll take it.

The Trump years may well end up validating those people who cheer for the worst possible outcome because it's the only way to bring about real change, and thats a horrifying thought.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xxxp

This isn't really a process forced to the front because of Trump. Moon and his election campaign were pretty explicit in their goal of easing up tensions with NK prior to his win, and the way to do it. There have been many diplomatic wins for the new SK government leading up to this. Their 'nu sunshine policy' was obviously what was needed after several hawkisk, hard line SK presidents. Trump's tantrumps have threatened to derail this plan, if anything, but forums like the Olympic Games were fortuitously timed to deflect that.

This isn't really a process forced to the front because of Trump.

i mean, obviously

it'll be a "win" for trump because he'll claim it, not because he had anything to do with it

See also: anything that could be perceived as a success throughout Trump's adult life.

yea I've heard a lot of right wing types claiming he "solved" North Korea but I honestly have no idea what he did, outside of threatening to nuke them over Twitter

OTOH to be fair to Trump (God knows why) if the situation had gotten worse you know he would have gotten the blame.

This isn't really a process forced to the front because of Trump.
i mean, obviously

it'll be a "win" for trump because he'll claim it, not because he had anything to do with it

motherfucker took credit for the olympics for no reason