Yup, Trump STILL GOT PLAYED. Summit happened and NK still hasn't agreed to concrete steps to denuke.
Since GD5150 thought digging up this post from a month ago would somehow prove I made a false prediction when I hadn't. I was only describing what had just transpired. The summit at that time had been canceled after NK said they would never give up their nukes.
But it's just as easy to argue that Trump got played now as it was back then, so based on the facts it's hard to understand why this post does anything but vindicate my original point.
The reality is that Trump got nothing:
1) What North Korea agreed to is much less than it has agreed to in other NK-US engagements and agreements over the last 25 years.
2) Getting nothing, Trump further conceded an end to US-South Korea military exercises.
3) He also gave the North Koreans a major diplomatic victory by appearing in a major international summit on equal terms with the United States. Trump is showering their dictator with lavish over-the-top praise!
The takeaway is that we are more on the road to accepting North Korea as a nuclear weapons state than making any realistic progress to eliminating those weapons.
He either got played or played himself. So my original point stands.
Original post:
I was really rooting for him on this and it really sounded too good to be true. And alas, of course it was.
Because this is Trump after all, he couldn't get it done before first patting himself on the back and fucking it all up.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-southkorea-talks/north-korea-says-may-reconsider-summit-with-trump-suspends-talks-with-south-idUSKCN1IG2ZI