RE: Looks Like The WLB Got Hoodwinked
June 14, 2018 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2018 at 3:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 14, 2018 at 3:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(June 14, 2018 at 10:34 am)Wololo Wrote: And now they're trying to weasel out of the document. Shitteo was over in Soeul saying that the "denuclearisation" process has to be verifiable.
My guess is the whole deal's a dead letter since yesterday.
Remember he went into the meeting with no official record taker. Now Kim is saying Trump said things Trump said he didn't. I don't know which one is lying, they both have form.
So this seems like it will end like prayer. it looks like they did something, but in the end nothing was achieved.
Kim is playing trump like a fiddle. He knows trump is hobbled by his own lack of credibility. The release of the photo of trump holding a solute before a North Korean general who had already dropped his is almost certainly calculated to further damage trump’s credibility.
It is a universal military custom, even between officers of different militaries, for the higher ranking officer to drop his solute first and for the lower ranking officer to hold his solute until the higher ranking officer had dropped his as a mark of deference. So This particular photo is almost certainly selected for Kim to show trump the leader of the great enemy came groveling and paid deference not only to the “young marshal”, but even to just a lower ranking minion, thus authenticating the story of his glorious victory to his domestic audience.
It is also a break in protocol for civilian head of state to return a military solute from non-allied foreign military official.