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applegrove

(118,651 posts)
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:34 PM May 2019

North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit

North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit

May 30, 2019 at 7:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/30/north-korea-envoy-executed-over-trump-kim-summit/

"SNIP....

A South Korean newspaper reports that Kim Hyok Chol, “who led working-level negotiations for the summit in Hanoi between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Trump in February, was executed with four other North Korean foreign ministry officials in March,” according to Bloomberg.

“Kim Jong Un’s top aide Kim Yong Chol is reportedly undergoing hard labor.”

Reuters: “The North Korean leader is believed to be carrying out a massive purge to divert attention away from internal turmoil and discontent.”

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North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit (Original Post) applegrove May 2019 OP
Let's see trumpie gloss over this one. Haggis for Breakfast May 2019 #1
Didn't Trump walk out of the last negotiations as a Art of the Deal stunt? applegrove May 2019 #2
"We have many of the worst people in the world here..." superpatriotman May 2019 #3
DJT: "I didn't like the guy anyway." moondust May 2019 #9
Rumor has it that John Bolton has gone into hiding. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #4
Yeah, you know Orange Julius is going to think he has to top that jberryhill May 2019 #5
I still have a higher opinion of Kim than Trump. nt Progressive Jones May 2019 #6
Theory TheRealistRealist May 2019 #7
Nope. Nope. Nope. Trump is just herd averse as many applegrove May 2019 #8
K&R Scurrilous May 2019 #10

applegrove

(118,651 posts)
2. Didn't Trump walk out of the last negotiations as a Art of the Deal stunt?
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:39 PM
May 2019

There are consequences to foreign policy with dictators.

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)
3. "We have many of the worst people in the world here..."
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:43 PM
May 2019

“Some would say the worst.”

“Comey and the eighteen angry Democrats, Brennan...”

Kim emboldens him. He is learning from him. Just like his other autocratic despot pals.

TheRealistRealist

(180 posts)
7. Theory
Thu May 30, 2019, 11:14 PM
May 2019

I believe these so-called summits with Kim are intelligence drops from Trump. The same with the Helsinki summits with Putin. Trump may be giving Kim and Putin names of people within their circle who have given information to the US. Basically Trump is a spy. Pretty sure Mueller and Nancy Pelosi knows that he doing this. Also, this could be what Pelosi was referring to when she said Trump was 'becoming self-impeachable'.

applegrove

(118,651 posts)
8. Nope. Nope. Nope. Trump is just herd averse as many
Thu May 30, 2019, 11:22 PM
May 2019

dyslexics are. He was mentored by Roy Cohn so he likes psychopaths. He's out of his league. No intelligence drops. Just Trump winging it.

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