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Kim Jong-un has a peace bridge he’d like to sell you.
His grandfather, Kim Il-sung, sold that bridge to Bill Clinton in 1994, promising to shut down a reactor designed to produce plutonium for bombs in exchange for oil supplies, a pair of “proliferation-resistant” reactors, and an easing of trade restrictions.
The deal, known as the Agreed Framework, “will make the United States, the Korean Peninsula, and the world safer,” Clinton promised. “It does not rely on trust. Compliance will be certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
In 2002, North Korean negotiators admitted to pursuing a secret uranium-enrichment program. The Framework collapsed.
Six years after that, Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, sold the same bridge to George W. Bush. In exchange for relief from U.S. sanctions, North Korea promised to declare its nuclear activities, disable its reactor, and allow international inspections.
“The policy of the United States is a Korean Peninsula free of all nuclear weapons,” Bush said in a statement. “This morning we moved a step closer to that goal when North Korean officials submitted a declaration of their nuclear programs.”
It soon became clear that the North’s declaration was incomplete. Pyongyang evicted inspectors the following April and conducted a nuclear test the next month.
Now it’s Kim’s turn to play the game of escalate-and-conciliate/cheat-and-repeat. Judging from Friday’s brilliantly orchestrated summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the village of Panmunjom, the young leader may be his family’s most adept player yet.
You can bet your ass that the WLB doesn't know anything about this stuff. And he's too stupid to learn.
Worse. His balls are in a vise and he's desperate for a "major deal" he can tout to his supporters (and the Congressional Republicans who fear them). Trump claims he won't be played by Kim (and the Chinese giving him his marching orders), but as usual I can't trust the son of a bitch.
