(06-14-2018, 11:41 AM)Kotite Wrote: So I am clear.. We should be happy a meeting took place. One where NK got major concessions (which China actually wanted too) and we got nothing. This guy talks about how bad the Iran deal was, but this is a good deal for America? How? Future considerations? Please tell me you're joking. NK got the attention and the guise of being a legitimate nation. AND we unilaterally halted military activity without a word being had with the Pentagon or South Korea which has lived in fear of attack for decades. If Obama did this, I would say it sucks and FOX News would be on 24 hour aneurysm watch. We got precisely jack. It's okay to admit that. It's okay to say you hope for more. But it's not okay to act like anything got accomplished that makes us any better off today. We have no oversight. No verification. Just an empty promise from a guy who kills his own people.

What "major concessions" did NK and/or China get?

Whether you or anyone else likes it, North Korea is in fact a "legitimate nation".  Are they a Superpower?  Of course not and nobody in the world views them as such.

What this meeting got for us is open dialog.  There was no major agreement made after the first meeting between President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.  What that meeting did accomplish was opening up dialog with a brutal communist regime which not only eventually led to the end of The Cold War, but it also opened up dialog regarding human rights issues.

As far as suspending military exorcises in the area, that's more of a "dog and pony show" than anything else.  Military exorcises happen all over the world almost on a daily basis.  It's a big nothing-burger.

My hope is that opening up this dialog will eventually lead to addressing the human rights abuses by the communist North Korean dictatorship as well as address the nuclear development within North Korea.

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