[ QUOTE="jkosu, post: 1233549, member: 768"]This summit has two possible outcomes:
A) Trump failed
b) Clinton and Obama’s policies worked, they just took time.
The most damaging thing this could do is bolster Kim's status. The North Korean people are totally curt off to outside information sources, all they know is what they are told by the government. The "best" way to stop the threat of the DPRK would be to get rid of Kim and his family, but neither China nor Russia want that, so the only way that would happen would be for him to be overthrown by his own people, but, this summit will now legitimize him, he , I am sure, will tell his people tell his people that the only reason the US is talking to him is because of his brilliance and we are scared of his weapons, and it will just be more proof to his people how great he is[/QUOTE]
If that plays out exactly as you have described how does that change the dynamic between the US and North Korea?
How does it make Kim any more legitimate to his own people? Hell, he enjoys virtual godlike status.
How does this meeting make Kim any more legitimate on the world stage? Are you thinking the countries of Europe or Africa or South America are suddenly going to want relations with North Korea? Because Trump met with Kim one on one?
Personally I don’t see a downside to the meeting. If it leads to a peace treaty between the two Koreas, or reduces or eliminates Kim’s nuclear arsenal, it is a major milestone in bringing peace to a section of earth that has not known it in my lifetime. If the meeting fails nothing will have changed. Kim will continue his bellicose rhetoric while Trump will continue to call him Little Rocket Man. We’ll be where we have been for the last 70 years or so.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It almost seems like some people want to see failure. They would rather face a potential nuclear war than see Trump have any success whatsoever. That’s just crazy.
