Scoop: Trump may hold Round 2 with Kim Jong-un in NYC
Source: Axios
Some administration officials are so optimistic about making progress with North Korea's Kim Jong-un that they hope a Round 2 with President Trump can be held in New York in September, when world leaders pour into Trump's hometown for the U.N. General Assembly.
The big picture: Officials tell us that Kim would have to show progress for the meeting to occur. One possibility would be for Trump to hold out a Round 2 meeting as a carrot to encourage real movement by North Korea over the summer.
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Well, Kim would certainly get a helpful education in how Democracy and protests work...
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Freethinker65
(9,932 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"This is what democracy looks like."
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)And, the zombie base just follows them along ..
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)http://time.com/5328002/north-korea-expanding-missile-plant-report/
Satellite Images Show North Korea Is Expanding a Missile-Manufacturing Plant, a Report Finds
By Bloomberg 4:19 AM EDT
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies report found that North Korea has recently expanded a factory complex in the eastern city of Hamhung that produces key engines for solid-fuel ballistic missiles. The factory also makes other missile components, including re-entry vehicles for warheads that could be used on longer-range missiles capable of reaching the U.S.
The expansion suggests that, despite hopes for denuclearization, Kim Jong Un is committed to increasing North Koreas stockpile of nuclear-armed missiles, the reports authors David Schmerler and Jeffrey Lewis wrote.
The analysis, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to undercut Trumps assurances that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat after his June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore. U.S. intelligence officials have separately concluded that Kim was seeking to conceal his nuclear weapons stockpile and had no intention of surrendering his arsenal, NBC News reported.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142098285
NBC News, by Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian and Carol E. Lee / Jun.29.2018 / 5:13 PM ET
WASHINGTON U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration, U.S. officials told NBC News.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Articles like this prove to me how the right controls the narrative. Axios should have added information like you just did. Axios should have laughed at the idea of a 2nd "summit" because of "progress."
The 1st Trump/Kim summit should be exposed for what it was, a total win for North Korea.
Thank you for bringing us all back to reality Bernardo, too bad we don't have more news organizations that do the same.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)The missile report is only within the last 24 hours so wouldn't have been factored into Axios reporting on a second summit.
The news media are prone to fall into tRump's ability to frame using language, and controlling the news cycle and narrative. This may be such a case.
Lakoff: Trump has turned words into weapons. And he's winning the linguistic war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/how-to-report-trump-media-manipulation-language
George P Lakoff and Gil Duran
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Trump knows the press has a strong instinct to repeat his most outrageous claims, and this allows him put the press to work as a marketing agency for his ideas. His lies reach millions of people through constant repetition in the press and social media. This poses an existential threat to democracy.
Language works by activating brain structures called frame-circuits used to understand experience. They get stronger when we hear the activating language. Enough repetition can make them permanent, changing how we view the world.
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Scientists, marketers, advertisers and salespeople understand these principles. So do Russian and Islamic State hackers. But most reporters and editors clearly dont. So the press is at a disadvantage when dealing with a super salesman with an instinctive ability to manipulate thought by 1) framing first 2) repeating often, and 3) leading others to repeat his words by getting people to attack him within his own frame.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210728613
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)I was under the impression that they were reporting news.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)Javaman
(62,439 posts)that kim will stop being a meanie.