Trump Was Outfoxed in Singapore

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Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum 44m44 minutes ago
Good column by ⁦@NickKristof⁩ on how Kim gave nothing and got a lot from ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩. https://t.co/UDvb5pwGA2

____Within North Korea, the “very special bond” that Trump claimed to have formed with Kim will be portrayed this way: Kim forced the American president, through his nuclear and missile tests, to accept North Korea as a nuclear equal, to provide security guarantees to North Korea, and to cancel war games with South Korea that the North has protested for decades.

In exchange for these concessions, Trump seems to have won astonishingly little. In a joint statement, Kim merely “reaffirmed” the same commitment to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that North Korea has repeatedly made since 1992.

“They were willing to de-nuke,” Trump crowed at his news conference after his meetings with Kim. Trump seemed to believe he had achieved some remarkable agreement, but the concessions were all his own.

The most remarkable aspect of the joint statement was what it didn’t contain. There was nothing about North Korea freezing plutonium and uranium programs, nothing about destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, nothing about allowing inspectors to return to nuclear sites, nothing about North Korea making a full declaration of its nuclear program, nothing about a timetable, nothing about verification, not even any clear pledge to permanently halt testing of nuclear weapons or long-range missiles.

read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-kim-summit-north-korea.html

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1. The only special bond I can think of is the...

...Super Glue bond that is holding Trump's lips to Putin's and Kim's asses.