The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 03:01 PM
North Korea's Leader Learned The Hard Way Today He's Dealing With President Donald Trump Not President Obama
“Based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote in a letter to Kim on Thursday. “Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.”
North Korea for days has questioned whether the summit would go forward trying to posture and
Earlier today, Vice Minister of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, Choe Son Hui, also said that whether the U.S. "will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States," according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
The official also insulted Vice President Pence after he said North Korea had asked for the meeting.
"As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice president," Choe reportedly said.
Officials told news outlets across the country that it was the threat of nuclear war -- not the insult to Pence -- that led to the summit pullout.
“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Trump wrote to Kim. “If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write. The world, and North Korea in particular, has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great prosperity and wealth.”
Trump added: “This missed opportunity is truly a sad moment in history.”
"There was a difference when Kim Jong Un left China the second time," said Trump at an appearance alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
"I can't say that I'm happy about it."
And there folks is the difference between true leadership and what America had during the past eight years under Barrack Obama.
It's something that Kim Jung Un learned today as well. The North Korean dictator may think he can act like a petulant child as he has in the past but he cannot. This is not some call to play in a sandbox and scream when you have your shovel taken from you. This was about the security of not just the Korean peninsula, but the entire world! President Trump always understood that, North Korea's leader did not.
In the past this meeting would have happened for the cameras and Obama would have taken a victory lap that major strides had been made in the U.S.-North Korea relationship. I mean just look at how Obama handled Iran and Cuba. To hear the liberal media speak those two events in the Obama foreign policy were likened to D-Day in the Second World War.
President Trump is not Obama and thank God for it.
The time for staged photo opportunities and false promises is over.
The Dems this morning are already spinning this as a "failure" on the part of the Trump White House. Crooked Bob Menendez (D-NJ) took a shot at the Trump administration in his opening statement at a hearing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this morning. Menendez and the Democrats would be wise not to gloat too much. They too are dealing with Donald J. Trump - the author of the "art of the deal."
This is not a sad day for America. It's a sad day for North Korea. They slammed an open door of opportunity for peace because their leader is a psychopath. That is who is to blame for this, not our President.
It may seem like it's back to the drawing board. I'd say it's more like this is what foreign policy looks like when adults are in charge. The score is President Trump and America winning, North Korea and China in the loser's bracket. I got my bets on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, how about you?
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Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge
Great Smoky Mountain Journal
