LETTER TO THE EDITOR 3/10/18

A Trump-Kim Summit?  A BIG deal or a BIG disaster?  What could come of the “maniac” and the “mentally-deranged dotard” duking it out over the negotiation table?  On the evening of March 8th at the White House, South Korea’s head of National Security office, Chung Eui-yong, was given the honor and precedence, by Donald Trump, to break the news and read out the announcement: an invitation from North Korea’s, Kim Jong Un, to President Trump to meet with him by May, and he would begin Denuclearization.  President Trump readily agreed to meet with “Little-Rocketman”.   That would be unprecedented!   No U.S. president has met with the rogue, pariah “state”, who has wanted U.S. validation for decades.  Dictator Un is responsible for Otto Warmbier’s death, and currently holds three jailed Americans, and is starving his own people.  North Korea has tried to “play us” for decades; they have previously entered into agreements with us and have reneged.   Trump’s narcissistic ego makes him a prime player for this “summit”, which normally takes several months to set up.  On Friday, the White House walked-back the news saying that, “No time or place has been set for a meeting, which will not occur until concrete and verifiable actions have been taken on the ‘promised issues’.  The Dictator wants to remove international sanctions, which were stepped-up by Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign”;  they are feeling “the burn”.  They need aid, resources and fuel supplies, and he wants troops moved off the peninsula.  North Korea agreed in 2005 to denuclearize, but didn’t.   Who believes that Kim Jong Un  plans to denuclearize the missile system that he just succeeded in ramping up to this current state of capability?  He just wants to play and buy time.  “The State Department is in shambles …we have no American ambassador to South Korea and no under-secretary for arms control and international security”.  Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said Thursday, “We are a long way from negotiations with North Korea”.  Trump tweeted out Friday that his agreement to meet with Kim still stands, and later tweeted out the he “is tired of being reined in!”  Trump is notorious for not listening to his advisors.  In fact, the news today 3/9/18 is that Trump is planning for Spring Cleaning … to fire Chief of Staff, John Kelly, National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, and “advisors” Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner soon.  No worries.. Trump gets the best people!

Trish Forsyth Voss