Kim/Trump Summit Disaster

[Dill]

(02-28-2019, 12:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'd love for someone to point out how it's different other than "muh feels".  No one who didn't support them supports them now and vice versa.  N. Korea is exactly what it's been for the past seventy years, a useful distraction for Russia/USSR and a buffer zone between China and US influence.  That's all it will ever be unless it makes radical changes.

I am in the middle of something else at the moment so I don't have time to give a thorough answer.  Maybe later tonight.

But I cannot let this pass without saying something at least.

The effectiveness of sanctions depends on the willingness of nations to enforce them. Before the first big historic first summit, Kim was boxed in even by Russia and China.  Since Kim Il Sung, no North Korean leader traveled around the world meeting with leaders to establish multiple unilateral relations with them--the kind that make it hard to enforce sanctions and easy to get around them. 

The first Summit opened young Kim's way to face-to-face meetings with leaders of China, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan(on the table).  Now add Putin and Vietnam's Trong. The (correct) perception of Trump's ineffectiveness is working now to undo the sanctions regime placed on NK by Bush, Obama and the UN.

We are a long ways from the Obama days, when a US leader could get countries as different as China, Iran and Russia to sit down at the table and agree to something.