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Offline TomSea

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'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« on: June 13, 2018, 04:01:41 am »
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'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
By Edward-Isaac Dovere

Few observers expected President Donald Trump to challenge Kim Jong Un on human rights. The subject in general hasn’t been a priority for him.

The president once raged at the North Korean leader as a 'madman' and a killer, but showed little concern for his brutal style during their meeting in Singapore.

Almost exactly one year ago, North Korea returned an imprisoned 22-year-old American college student to his family in the United States. It was not a happy reunion.

Otto Warmbier, whom the North Koreans had imprisoned for more than a year, arrived in a coma and died a few days later — spurring President Donald Trump to rail against the “brutality” of a North Korean government that lacked “basic human decency.” Trump gradually focused his attacks on the regime’s leader, Kim Jong Un, calling him a “sick puppy” and a “madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people.”

Read more at: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/12/trump-north-korea-human-rights-642336
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Re: 'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2018, 04:09:31 am »
Who the hell is Edward-Isaac Dovere and why should anyone care what he thinks? This is generally the stupidest article I have seen in a while.
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Re: 'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2018, 04:15:29 am »
Taking this argument to its logical conclusion...since Kim's victims can't be un-killed, then there is no way we can make any kind of peace with him.  This would reduce our foreign policy to Jimmy Carter level stupid.
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Re: 'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2018, 04:35:34 am »
The problem is there are many Japanese people who were kidnapped to NK years or decades ago.  What about them?
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Re: 'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2018, 04:49:42 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on June 13, 2018, 04:15:29 am
Taking this argument to its logical conclusion...since Kim's victims can't be un-killed, then there is no way we can make any kind of peace with him.  This would reduce our foreign policy to Jimmy Carter level stupid.

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Re: 'What the hell?' Trump-Kim lovefest ignores human rights nightmare
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2018, 10:19:50 am »
Quote from: LauraTXNM on June 13, 2018, 04:35:34 am
The problem is there are many Japanese people who were kidnapped to NK years or decades ago.  What about them?


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Japan PM Shinzo Abe thanks Donald Trump for raising North Korea’s abductions with Kim Jong-un
South China Morning Post, Jun 12, 2018

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the joint statement signed by US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore as a first step in the denuclearisation of North Korea.

“We see this as a step in a comprehensive resolution,” Abe said in Tokyo after he spoke by phone with Trump.

Japan wants North Korea to agree to a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation. In the joint statement Kim committed North Korea “to work towards complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”.

Abe added that he “would like to thank the president (Trump) for raising the abduction issue,” referring to Japan’s demand that Pyongyang release any remaining Japanese people it abducted to train its spies.

"I brought it up absolutely and they are going to be working on that,” Trump said at a news conference following his historic summit with Kim, when asked whether the abduction issue came up during their meeting.

More:  http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplomacy/article/2150426/japan-pm-shinzo-abe-thanks-donald-trump-raising-north-koreas

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