Trump, Putin to meet and discuss North Korea

[spanone]

Tokyo (CNN)President Donald Trump will seek to enlist his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week on a mission to confront an increasingly truculent North Korea during their second face-to-face meeting.

Trump said aboard Air Force One as he winged toward Japan on Sunday that he expected the sit-down to occur on the sidelines of a summit for Asia-Pacific leaders in Vietnam, which is due to begin Thursday.

The talks will come as the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia's 2016 election meddling heats up back home. Before Trump departed for Asia, three of his campaign aides were ensnared in the probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller. During their first meeting in July, Trump did raise the issue of Russia's interference, though since then he's called the notion that Russia worked to sway the vote in his favor a hoax.

Trump and his aides had hoped this week's grueling itinerary through five countries would help distract from the Russia matter, though Trump himself appeared preoccupied by the issue as he departed the White House on Friday, unleashing a stream of tweets as Air Force One headed toward Hawaii.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/politics/president-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-meeting/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. I think majority in the world knows that t-rump

will be begging Putin for advice on how to rid Mueller, his opponents and further destroy the USA. It has nothing to do with NK. NK was never a threat not like Russia.

[Madam45for2923]

3. I think Putin will advise that some assassinations and seizing of fortunes are in order.

[dalton99a]

11. And do something about the enemy of the people

Link to tweet

[Hugin]

2. Among other things...

[SummerSnow]

4. Not good

[SummerSnow]

5. Don't know how those talks will go. Read this...

Russia’s Recent Expansion of Economic Assistance to North Korea

Even though Russian policymakers have consistently supported sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear weapons buildup and publicly criticized the DPRK regime’s belligerent foreign policy, the Kremlin has played a critical role in ameliorating North Korea’s economic isolation. The contrast between Kremlin rhetoric and policy towards North Korea has been most stark in the spheres of infrastructure and energy.

On January 31, Russia’s state news agency, TASS, reported that Russia Railways representatives visited North Korea to discuss an expansion of railway links between the two countries. The Russian delegation’s trip proved fruitful, as both parties agreed to expand training opportunities for North Korean engineers at Russian universities.

Increasing the exposure of North Korean workers to Russian technical expertise will allow more North Koreans to staff the Rajin-Hasan railway, which links Russia to the Korean peninsula. Even though South Korea withdrew itself from the Rajin-Hasan railway project in March 2016, Moscow’s willingness to continue the project’s development highlights the strength of its relationship with the North Korean regime, during a period of unprecedented isolation for Pyongyang.

As China’s oil supplies to North Korea have been periodically disrupted due to tensions between Beijing and Pyongyang, Moscow’s importance as an investor in the DPRK’s energy sector has increased markedly. Siberian oil companies have sold fuel to North Korea via a supply route linking Vladivostok to Rajin. These fuel supplies have provided the North Korean regime with vital hard currency, as the DPRK has processed Siberian oil in chemical plants and resold it to Chinese consumers.

Kim has responded to Russia’s consistency as a North Korean economic ally by publicly hailing the DPRK’s partnership with Moscow and increasing its shipments of guest workers to construction projects in Siberia. The presence of 10,000 North Koreans in Russia and the DPRK’s convenience as a source of cheap labor for Putin’s attempts to modernize Vladivostok suggests that Moscow is unlikely to match its critical rhetoric on North Korea’s nuclear buildup with retaliatory actions for the foreseeable future.

https://thediplomat.com/2017/02/russias-love-affair-with-north-korea/

* read the whole article at the link

[spanone]

6. continued collusion...

[Docreed2003]

7. grueling itinerary

Despite the ominous point of the article about Trump meeting with Daddy, why is the media playing this “grueling” narrative constantly with every diplomatic trump that Trump makes?? It’s infuriating and seems to imply that Trump is being ask to do more than is usual for a President. They did the same crap when he went to Europe.

I’m sooooooo sorry this man child doesn’t have the mental capacity or patience to actually function as the leader of the free world, but maybe he should have thought of that before he decided to take the office.

[spanone]

8. it's SO grueling he's playing golf today.....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029798718

[Docreed2003]

10. Because of course he is...smdh

[Achilleaze]

9. Will they slip off for another of their 'private meetings'?

...as they plan on how to use the republican party and russian trolls to further weaken and take down America?

[justhanginon]

12. Colluders must collude.

[Achilleaze]

13. A hashtag meme is born

#ColludersMust Collude or maybe more concisely #ColludersCollude

[SummerSnow]

14. That's probably first on their agenda

[roamer65]

15. Dump needs further instructions from his FSB handler.