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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/18/us-cancels-south-korea-military-exercise-amid-north-korea-threats-report.htmlA training exercise involving U.S. B-52 bombers flying alongside South Korean warplanes was canceled following threats that Pyongyang would withdraw from a highly anticipated summit with President Donald Trump next month, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials.
According to Friday's report, the officials said South Korea had asked to not participate in an air drill that also involved Japan and the U.S.
The White House referred CNBC's request for comment about the Journal report to the Pentagon, which said plans for a separate exercise is continuing as planned.
The news came a day after the Defense Department said the U.S. had no plans to scale back the exercises.
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I bring this up not so much to discuss the merits of doing it but to ask........... can you even BEGIN to fathom, the National OUTRAGE that would have occurred if Obama had extended an olive branch in such a fashion? This article was posted Friday and today, Sunday, is the first I've seen it. If Obama had done this EVERY Rethug would have been screaming into EVERY camera they could possibly find that Obama is "weak" on defense, that he "capitulates" to our enemies and emboldens them to attack us by doing so. It would have been the headline story on EVERY news show with a constant stream of right wing talking heads.
But drumpf does it, and there is a small internet posted article with a few hundred words about it that will probably reach less than 1 million people.
madashelltoo
(1,685 posts)If Cadet Bone Spurs thinks Kim wont recognize how desperate he is, he really is a dunce. All of this is sickening.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)I think he would give up anything at this point so he can brag about this meeting.
BlueDog22
(366 posts)We are getting hoodwinked here.
handmade34
(22,755 posts)anything for a Nobel Prize
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Do the republicans realize what a danger we have in such a weak, narcissistic attention whore?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)pregnant women's care, along with taking away HUD, SNAP, SS, and other government assistance programs in order to satisfy the countries that help steal the election for t-rump while also giving tons of money to NK to guarantee a Noble Peace prize.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)What else will NK get in return for this meeting?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,279 posts)just so he can say he made a "deal"?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)and is playing with him like a YoYo.
Sid
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)He wants a win for his installed President. Mid Terms are closing in and he fears Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schift.
B2G
(9,766 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)North Korea 1
United States 0
unblock
(51,974 posts)Great. Let's send a signal to rogue nations that a nuclear program can easily extract concessions from the United States.
Brilliant.