With US talks in limbo, Korean leaders hold surprise summit

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Kim Tong-hyung, Associated Press
Updated 6:01 pm, Saturday, May 26, 2018

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Saturday for the second time in a month, exchanging a huge bear hug and broad smiles in a surprise summit at a border village to discuss Kim's potential meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and ways to follow through on the peace initiatives of the rivals' earlier summit.

Following a whirlwind 24 hours that saw Trump cancel the highly anticipated June 12 meeting with Kim before saying it's potentially back on, the Korean leaders took matters into their own hands.

Their quickly arranged meeting Saturday appears to highlight a sense of urgency on both sides of the world's most heavily armed border: Moon wants to secure a summit that he sees as the best way to ease animosity that had some fearing a war last year; Kim may see the sit-down with Trump as the best way to save his economy from crushing sanctions and win security assurances in a region surrounded by enemies.

Kim, in a telling line from a dispatch issued by the North's state-run news service on Sunday, "expressed his fixed will on the historic (North Korea)-U.S. summit talks." The two Korean leaders agreed to "positively cooperate with each other as ever to improve (North Korea)-U.S. relations and establish (a) mechanism for permanent and durable peace."


Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/S-Korea-relieved-about-Trump-Kim-summit-revival-12945334.php

[Turbineguy]

1. What's to stop them from

getting to an agreement.

Why do they need to even deal with Trump?

[unblock]

2. They want us to lift sanctions

And promise not to nuke them

[keithbvadu2]

3. D'ya suppose Kim/China are playing Dotard for a fool and he will be desperate to get back in the gam

D'ya suppose Kim/China are playing Dotard for a fool and he will be desperate to get back in the game so he can pretend to be a world leader?

[BigmanPigman]

4. On again, off again, on again, etc......

The fucking moron couldn't cut a deal to save his life and he knows it. He is afraid. His ego is in jeopardy and that is the the only thing he gives a shit about, besides money that is. He knows he is completely unprepared and so is his team with Bolten and Pence as major fuck ups as far as diplomacy is concerned. There is no foreign policy, there is no state dept, there are no ambassadors...gee, what could go wrong?

[Polly Hennessey]

5. My hope is that Moon Jae-In

and Kim Jon-Un win the Nobel Peace Prize. Old 45 will for sure get his knickers in a twist.

[Judi Lynn]

6. That would be perfection! Wow. n/t