[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I've been thinking (like that biker guy in the Beach Blanket movies)

What if Aktungbby is on to something here and the whole peace talk thing, at least with South Korea, is centered around the fact that NK has gone to far in their testing of nuclear weapons with the test site being destroyed and unable to verify that it was a test gone bad. What would it take to hide say (10 nuclear warheads and of course those mobile missile launchers in a country that is suspicious of everything they do?
I'm sure we won't give in with Trump saying we won't be suckers this time, but the oriental mind is too shifty for me to at least think they are up to no good.

reread post# 1176's WSJ quote:

These are standard North Korean shakedown techniques, honed to perfection by three generations of regime negotiators. Mr. Kim is probing for pre-emptive concessions before his big get-together with Mr. Trump. Such techniques have proved successful in the past, which is why today North Korea is for all intents and purposes a nuclear state. If the U.S. wants a different outcome this time, it is going to have to adopt a radically different approach.
The most important thing for American negotiators to understand is that North Korea is a “revisionist state”—one that is deeply aggrieved by, and fundamentally opposed to, the current configuration of the international chessboard. It regards South Korea as an illegitimate monstrosity that must be wiped off the map so the Kim family can gather the whole Korean race (the “minjok”) under the peninsula’s true “independent socialist” government.
Given that worldview, North Korea regards the U.S. as the villain whose security architecture has permitted the vile “South Korean puppets” to survive. Thus the imperative for Mr. Kim to amass an arsenal of nukes and long-range missiles. The eventual goal is a showdown in which Pyongyang would make Uncle Sam blink and abandon Korea.

THE MEETING IN SINGAPORE IS JUST SO MUCH 'JAW-JAW' ON BEHALF OF LONG-RANGE CHINESE EXPANSIONIST POLICIES. THE KIM-KIM MOON-MOON HUG-HUG POSES NO ILLUSIONS FOR MR MOON WHO KNOWS PERFECTLY WELL HE WILL END UP ALONGSIDE FATBOY'S UNCLE AND HALF BROTHER AS AN EXPENDIBLE ENTITY TO THE 'MINJOK' INTENTIONS OF 'DEAR LEADER'....
THIS HAS ALL THE EARMARKS OF THE HILTLER-STALIN PACT PRIOR TO OPERATION BARBAROSSA....