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Grokmaster
01-03-2018, 04:04 PM
More progress with ONE TWEET than nearly a decade of Obama ankle-grabbing.

Looks like CONFRONTING DESPOTS works better than appeasing them, huh?

Apparently the REAL WORLD has seeped into Little Kim's reality, as he opens the communications hotline with South Korea, that was CLOSED while former Pres. Obama was busy appeasing him.

The North is even discussing joining the world community at the Olympics. Amazing.

What a difference STRONG LEADERSHIP plays.





North Korea reopens border hotline as Trump boasts of 'bigger' nuclear button






SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea reopened a long-closed border hotline with South Korea on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to mock North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by saying he has a “bigger and more powerful” nuclear button than Kim does.
On Tuesday, Seoul proposed high-level discussions amid a tense standoff over North Korea’s program to develop nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching the United States.
That proposal followed a New Year address by the North Korean leader in which he said he was open to speaking with the South and would consider sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics to be held in South Korea in February.
U.S. officials said Washington would not take any talks between North and South Korea seriously if they did not contribute to denuclearizing North Korea. A State Department spokeswoman said North Korea “might be trying to drive a wedge” between Washington and Seoul.
Kim ordered the reopening of the hotline at the truce village of Panmunjom at 0630 GMT on Wednesday, when South Korean officials at the border received a call from the North, the South’s unification ministry said in a text message.

Officials on both sides were checking the line and conducting a conversation for about 20 minutes, the contents of which were not disclosed by the ministry.

There was no immediate U.S. comment, although a State Department spokeswoman, Katina Adams, said Washington remained in close contact with Seoul “about a unified response to North Korea.”

She said that as South Korea President Moon Jae-in had stated, “‘the improvement of relations between North and South Korea cannot advance separately from resolving North Korea’s nuclear program.'”

The reopening of the line, which North Korea shut down in February 2016, came only hours after Trump, who has repeatedly mocked Kim as “Little Rocket Man”, ridiculed the North Korean leader again on Twitter.


“Will someone from his depleted and food-starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Trump tweeted.
Trump and Kim have exchanged insults in recent months, raising alarm worldwide, with Trump at times dismissing the prospect of a diplomatic solution to a crisis in which both sides have threatened to destroy each other.
On Wednesday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told the Voice of America Trump was responding to Kim’s New Year comment about having a nuclear button on his desk, and making clear that “America will not be bullied, America will not be threatened.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hotline/north-korea-reopens-border-hotline-as-trump-boasts-of-bigger-nuclear-button-idUSKBN1ES07X




Trump's N.Korean foreign policy, which is having positive effect:

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The ALWAYS FAILED Obama foreign policy:


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See the difference?? "Little Rocket Man" SURE DOES....now , watch the local left desperately try to downplay this latest, "Trump Effect"....

Tahuyaman
01-03-2018, 04:39 PM
Only in the liberal world is following the same failed policy considered the right way to do things.

texan
01-03-2018, 05:02 PM
Everyone knows bullies go away if you ignore them.

Grokmaster
01-03-2018, 05:08 PM
Everyone knows bullies go away if you ignore them.

Good one !! Worked great for Obama, didn't it?

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