Will the June 12th summit happen or not?
"After all this it was just five days later when the North Koreans canceled a planning meeting and began signaling that “denuclearization” was not up for debate. It’s all pretty clear (and this was widely predicted by area experts). Kim waited and waited and waited, fluffed and fluffed and fluffed until Trump had locked himself into a time and a place before threatening to cancel and saying publicly North Korea would not give up its nuclear weapons. This way Trump is either faced with attending the summit in which the two men will meet as equals and with nuclearization not up for discussion or canceling a meeting upon which Trump has banked so much both domestically and internationally.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-trump-got-punked-by-kim-jong-un
I heard a former staffer say that Obama told them "when in negotiations, the other side must want it more than we do." I guess Obama didn't offer that advice to Trump during the transition. <smirk>
"After all this it was just five days later when the North Koreans canceled a planning meeting and began signaling that “denuclearization” was not up for debate. It’s all pretty clear (and this was widely predicted by area experts). Kim waited and waited and waited, fluffed and fluffed and fluffed until Trump had locked himself into a time and a place before threatening to cancel and saying publicly North Korea would not give up its nuclear weapons. This way Trump is either faced with attending the summit in which the two men will meet as equals and with nuclearization not up for discussion or canceling a meeting upon which Trump has banked so much both domestically and internationally.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-trump-got-punked-by-kim-jong-un
I heard a former staffer say that Obama told them "when in negotiations, the other side must want it more than we do." I guess Obama didn't offer that advice to Trump during the transition. <smirk>