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Originally posted on 03/10/2018:

cheering for the talks to fail. Sigh.

Sign indeed. You have NOTHING as usual

Dude, the "meeting off" was a fake news spoof. Geez.

Until NK obtains a delivery system to hit the US with a nuclear bomb there was no reason to consider a first strike. Right? This isn't overly complicated.

But now they are close. You really think a US president, especially this one, is going to let a madman have the capability to destroy a US city? A strike like that would lead to a collapse of the US and millions of deaths?

If this meeting does not produce an agreement the US will have no choice but to destroy this threat.

I think it has gone too far to expect NK to disarm before talks, or totally.

The threat can still be mitigated with diplomacy. The current sanctions and the strong US line seems to have resulted in actual productive talks happening between the two actual sides.

If they come to an agreement it will no doubt include scaling back of long range weapons to appease US concerns.


BUT, if the US and/or China tries to get in the middle and starts insisting on the same old unreasonable demands that dis-arming must occur before real talks rhetoric, all that will happen is to set back what looks like will be achieved.