U.S. and Korean leaders will try to talk... |
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nations that were at war back in the early 1950s and which ended in a stalemate
that for decades has created the potential for the shooting to start up again
are going to have their leaders try to talk out their differences.
WHAT WILL COME out of all this? Who’s to say!
If
anything, it doesn’t matter one iota what is actually done or said by officials
of either side.
This
truly will be an event about the political spin. Both sides are going to be
looking for some sort of occurrence that they can distort into a story putting themselves
in the best light.
When
it comes to the officials from North Korea, I’m sure they want something to happen
that they can claim to be the end of the war – with the North prevailing. It won’t
matter that nothing will actually change. They want to be able to say they
defeated the attempt of capitalism and Western imperialism to chase them out of
power.
AND
IF NOTHING truly occurs along those lines, they’ll want to be able to say it
does.
Meanwhile,
U.S. officials have their own agenda going into this gathering (which will take
place in the early hours of Tuesday – our time). It may be over and done by the
time we wake up Tuesday morning.
Or
maybe the sides will talk late into the night (which will be about lunchtime,
our time, on Tuesday)?
hat
President Donald Trump wants to gain out of all this is something that he will
be able to spin into stories of what a high-and-mighty, all-powerful negotiator
he truly is.
TRUMP
WANTS US to think that he’s the guy who was able to sit down face-to-face with
North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un and knuckle under to his almighty aura.
On
the surface, Trump says he wants to get North Korea officials to abandon the
arsenal they have built up throughout the years of nuclear weapons – which,
quite frankly, are the only reason anybody pays attention to the impoverished Asian
nation whose attempt at Communism is so isolationist that there’s really no
reason any other part of the world would want to be bothered with it.
Yes,
it really is about his ego and that Nobel Prize – he will forevermore be bitter
that his predecessor, Barack Obama, received the prize for his efforts to try
to bring peace to the Middle East. I’m sure if it were possible, Trump would
order the prize’s revocation from Obama.
Since
that’s not possible, he’s out to get his own. His backers already are
proclaiming him the man who “ended” the Korean War, and I’m sure the ideologues
here will be more than willing to distort whatever actually happens into a
story that backs their pre-summit rhetoric.
IN
ALL HONESTY, I’m skeptical that anything of significance will happen as a
result of the talks taking place in Singapore in coming days. Even Trump himself
has made statements warning that long-term change will take years to achieve.
The kind of image Trump dreams he can make a part of the past in Pyongyang |
This
week’s activity is about talk. And talk is good. It’s better than isolationism
keeping the sides apart to the point where our ignorance of each other results
in somebody doing something stupid (always risky when nuclear warheads are involved).
And
if it really is nothing but talk, I can’t help but remember the old cliché; “Talk
is cheap!”
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