Will the Next Trump-Kim Summit be at Korea’s DMZ?
Trump tweets an offer to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to Seoul next week.
President Donald Trump has been using his Twitter account to good effect this week, including his cutting commentary about the first two Democratic Party debates.
On his way to South Korea after successfully concluding the G20 economic summit in Japan, Trump invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him at the Demilitarized Zone.
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
“If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” Trump tweeted Saturday morning Japan time.
There was no immediate response from Kim, whose government has been critical of the United States in recent days amid calls for a third Trump-Kim summit to discuss eliminating Kim’s nuclear weapons programs.
Trump later told reporters he didn’t know if Kim would take him up on his offer.
“I just put out a feeler,” Trump said before a G-20 meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that South Koran President Moon Jae-in had a handshake with North Korea’s Chairman at the proposed location shortly after the 2018 Singapore Summit.
“I’m gonna be there for a day. I understand that’s one of the places I’ll be visiting,” Trump said during an exclusive interview with The Hill on Monday.
Asked if he would meet Kim there if the North Korean leader offered to do so, the president said, “I might, yeah.”
The Hill delayed publishing news of the trip earlier in the week at the request of the White House, which cited security concerns about publicizing the president’s plans that far in advance.
To be sure, South Korea’s President Moon has been lobbying hard at the G20 meeting this week for Trump to hold a third summit with Kim, which would promote Moon’s own pursuit of inter-Korean peace. The activities included a special, last-day meeting at the G20.
Stephen Biegun, U.S. special representative for North Korea, will use Friday meetings to set the table for Mr. Trump after he leaves the Group of 20 summit in Japan and touches down in [Seoul] Saturday.
Mr. Biegun and his South Korean counterpart “plan to hold in-depth consultations on ways to cooperate for substantive progress in the Korean Peninsula peace process, including the endeavors for the resumption of North-U.S. dialogue,” Kim In-chul, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told reporters Thursday.
…“This is a moment of hope after a long, frustrating pause after Hanoi,” Paik Haksoon, president of the Sejong Institute, a leading South Korea think tank, said in an interview on the edge of Myeongdong, a busy shopping district in Seoul.
They say the third time is the charm!
To conclude with a Trump tweet: Imagine the poll numbers if Trump manages to formally end the Korean War and eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea.
54% in Poll! I would be at 75% (with our great economy, maybe the best ever) if not for the Phony Witch Hunt and the Fake News Media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
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Comments
Either Kim is allowed to meet him, or Xi looks a lot less supportive of Kim’s Correct Thinking than he pretended to be. Either one works.
This is something Hillary could not have done.
But they would look cute together in black matching pantsuits.
We are conducting way too much government business on Twitter.
One of the advantages of using twitter is that your message isn’t filtered by bureaucratic toadies before the intended recipient receives it.
Trump is crazy like a fox. Brilliant.
The liberals only real regret is that the baby jesus Obama didnt do this. If he had the Democrat media would be all over this pimping it for his second Novel Peace prize.
No one believes for a minute that this was impromptu. The optics show otherwise. I like the whole story myself, just a stroll at the dmz and a handshake! Sometimes a president draws a line, sometimes a bigger president steps over it.
What I love about all this is just how hard hit the liberal left wing democrats are that Trump continues to win in spite of their very best efforts to thwart him.
Then there is the optics of the meeting happening that the liberal left wing democrat media cannot hide from the people (that this event happened). So now that its taken place and all the liberal left wing democrats who jumped up on their outrage safe space ponies got all outrageously outragety over Trump using twitter for diplomacy it just highlights how rabidly fucked in the head the liberal left wing democrat media is when it comes to anything related to Trump!!!
The winning just continues to come 🙂