(06-14-2018, 07:08 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(06-14-2018, 06:19 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: 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.

You and HB seem to disagree. Aren't joint exercises important for maintaining readiness?

Important for maintaining readiness?  Yes.  Critical?  No.  Just because a drill is called off doesn't mean that assets aren't in the area.  From experience I would bet that the U.S. Navy assets in the area will still conduct drills and training, it just won't publicly be in conjunction with foreign military and not advertised.  They are still there and still doing what they do.

The MSM is giving the illusion that military exercises are cut off and not happening.  I would bet that there are both U.S. and other country's warships (including submarines) not far off the coast of Korea right now.  They are still going to train, the only difference is that it's not going to be a publicly named exercise.

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