There are a lot of the populace that are trying to escape NK in any way that they can. I really think they have a pretty darned good idea that they don't have enough food.
There are a lot of the populace that are trying to escape NK in any way that they can. I really think they have a pretty darned good idea that they don't have enough food.
Well yea, they know that. I was talking about a "way of life" sort of thing. Things that most of the world take for granted they just don't know about. Ownership of land, cars, basic property. All sort of a "science fiction" thing to them. I believe if they knew of life outside their little prison, 'lil Kim Jong would get dead real quick, his own army would turn on him.
That in bold may be the biggest reason that he is willing to talk. After all, if his army has to give "leave" to the soldiers to go find food, then he might be thinking that somewhere down the line the military might decide a coup is in order.
It probably is anyway, especially considering how the "Kims" have treated the populace.
This sort of thing always reminds me of this satellite picture.
North Korean officials ransacking farmers' homes to find food for Kim's hungry army, report says
North Korean officials desperate to feed Kim Jong Un’s hungry army are ransacking the homes of drought-stricken farmers to collect every last grain of food inside, according to a report that highlights rising tensions between the regime and the public.
The raids come weeks after news surfaced that soldiers in Kim’s army are being given months off at a time to scrounge around fields to find food.
"Officials carried out home searches in Paekam County to determine how much food some families had,” a North Korean source told Daily NK. “As an excuse to enter and demand bribes, they said to the residents, 'Are we just going to let our military starve while the Americans lick their lips and prepare to eat us alive?'”
The Seoul-based website, which covers the Hermit Kingdom through a network of informants, published a photo last month purportedly showing North Korean soldiers rummaging through a corn field.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...nd-food-for-kims-hungry-army-report-says.html
Starving North Korean soldiers are ordered to steal corn so they are 'combat ready' for 'imminent war'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oldiers-ordered-steal-corn.html#ixzz598JcC57P
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It appears the Trump sanctions are working.
It's not just the US in these sanctions. China has quit buying coal from the norks and other countries have been put on notice for helping get around the sanctions.
A Nork fishing fleet was spotted in Africa recently.
North Korean officials desperate to feed Kim Jong Un’s hungry army are ransacking the homes of drought-stricken farmers to collect every last grain of food inside, according to a report that highlights rising tensions between the regime and the public.
The raids come weeks after news surfaced that soldiers in Kim’s army are being given months off at a time to scrounge around fields to find food.
"Officials carried out home searches in Paekam County to determine how much food some families had,” a North Korean source told Daily NK. “As an excuse to enter and demand bribes, they said to the residents, 'Are we just going to let our military starve while the Americans lick their lips and prepare to eat us alive?'”
The Seoul-based website, which covers the Hermit Kingdom through a network of informants, published a photo last month purportedly showing North Korean soldiers rummaging through a corn field.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/0...nd-food-for-kims-hungry-army-report-says.html
Starving North Korean soldiers are ordered to steal corn so they are 'combat ready' for 'imminent war'
- Army officers have 'given their malnourished fighters permission to raid crops'
- Starving fighters said to have also resorted to selling stolen corn at markets
- Comes despite Pyongyang repeatedly boasting of the power of its military
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oldiers-ordered-steal-corn.html#ixzz598JcC57P
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It appears the Trump sanctions are working.
It's not just the US in these sanctions. China has quit buying coal from the norks and other countries have been put on notice for helping get around the sanctions.
A Nork fishing fleet was spotted in Africa recently.
Trump accepts invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, little rocket man.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.acb518fd071a
President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks by May, an extraordinary development following months of heightened nuclear tension during which the two leaders exchanged frequent military threats and insults.
Kim has also committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month, Chung Eui-yong, the South Korean national security adviser, told reporters at the White House on Thursday. Chung extended the invitation from Kim to meet while briefing Trump on the four-hour dinner he had with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Monday.
After a year in which North Korea fired intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching all of the United States and tested what is widely thought to have been a hydrogen bomb, such a moratorium would be welcomed by the United States and the world.
But there is also significant risk for Trump in agreeing to a meeting apparently without the kind of firm preconditions sought by previous U.S. administrations. There has never been a face-to-face meeting, or even phone call, between sitting leaders of the two nations because American presidents have been wary of offering the Kim regime validation of a leaders-level summit on the global stage.
Lindsey Graham warns Kim Jong Un: Don't try to play Trump or 'it will be the end of you — and your regime'
Sen. Lindsey Graham shared on Thursday a "word of warning" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to keep in mind when he meets with President Trump.
"The worst possible thing you can do is meet with President Trump in person and try to play him," the South Carolina Republican said in a statement after a South Korean official announced outside the West Wing that Trump had accepted an invitation from Kim to meet by May.
"If you do that, it will be the end of you — and your regime," he added.
Though they were bitter rivals during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Graham has become a close ally of Trump's over the past year. Graham is a vocal hawk in the Senate and has repeatedly suggested that North Korea is teetering on the edge of war with the U.S. due to its insistence on threatening the U.S. and its efforts to build nuclear weapons capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
Graham said he has had "numerous discussions" with Trump, and explained that he "firmly" believes in Trump's "strong stand against North Korea and its nuclear aggression gives us the best hope in decades to resolve this threat peacefully."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.acb518fd071a
President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks by May, an extraordinary development following months of heightened nuclear tension during which the two leaders exchanged frequent military threats and insults.
Kim has also committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month, Chung Eui-yong, the South Korean national security adviser, told reporters at the White House on Thursday. Chung extended the invitation from Kim to meet while briefing Trump on the four-hour dinner he had with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Monday.
After a year in which North Korea fired intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching all of the United States and tested what is widely thought to have been a hydrogen bomb, such a moratorium would be welcomed by the United States and the world.
But there is also significant risk for Trump in agreeing to a meeting apparently without the kind of firm preconditions sought by previous U.S. administrations. There has never been a face-to-face meeting, or even phone call, between sitting leaders of the two nations because American presidents have been wary of offering the Kim regime validation of a leaders-level summit on the global stage.
Lindsey Graham warns Kim Jong Un: Don't try to play Trump or 'it will be the end of you — and your regime'
Sen. Lindsey Graham shared on Thursday a "word of warning" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to keep in mind when he meets with President Trump.
"The worst possible thing you can do is meet with President Trump in person and try to play him," the South Carolina Republican said in a statement after a South Korean official announced outside the West Wing that Trump had accepted an invitation from Kim to meet by May.
"If you do that, it will be the end of you — and your regime," he added.
Though they were bitter rivals during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Graham has become a close ally of Trump's over the past year. Graham is a vocal hawk in the Senate and has repeatedly suggested that North Korea is teetering on the edge of war with the U.S. due to its insistence on threatening the U.S. and its efforts to build nuclear weapons capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
Graham said he has had "numerous discussions" with Trump, and explained that he "firmly" believes in Trump's "strong stand against North Korea and its nuclear aggression gives us the best hope in decades to resolve this threat peacefully."
It was announced today, that unless lil' rocket man lives up to his promises to denuclearize North Korea, the face to face will not happen.
Trump has him on notice.
Trump has him on notice.
You seriously think Trump is as stupid as Clinton and Obama when it comes to negotiations?
Lets just say there will not be an airplane in the middle of the night with pallets of cash like obama did, nor giving nuclear technology and lifting restrictions along with cash like clinton did with the NORKS.
Even some of the Left wing media says if Trump succeeds he will be a great President. Unfortunately, the memo went out to the rest of the left wing media and they spent the next couple of days trying to get around what CNN's Erin Burnett said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/3...-down-as-a-great-president-if-he-solves-north
CNN's Erin Burnett said Thursday that if President Trump can solve the U.S. problem with North Korea, he "would be going down as a great president."
The commentary from the "Outfront" host followed the White House announcement that Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would meet "by May" in an effort to negotiate the denuclearization of North Korea.
“Just an extraordinarily evening and of course opening the door to the big question, if President Trump can truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great president. And there’s no way around that. That is the reality here," Burnett said at the end of her show.
Earlier in the show, a former adviser on the National Security Council under President Obama said there's "no way" Trump is ready for a direct meeting with Kim by May, as announced by South Korea's national security adviser on Thursday.
"There is no way that President Trump can be ready, by May, to have a high stakes negotiation on denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. It's just impossible," said Samantha Vinograd, who also serves as a CNN national security analyst.
Trump expressed optimism around the meeting on Twitter Thursday night, stating that "great progress [is] being made" while cautioning that "sanctions will remain" against North Korea "until an agreement is reached."
"Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze," Trump wrote to his 48.4 million followers. "Also, no missile testing by North Korea during this period of time. Great progress being made but sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. Meeting being planned!"
It could happen. If Lil Kimmie wants to remain in power, it is in his best interests. We already know that his army is out stealing food from the citizenry, and some of the army is selling what they steal. So, even his army is hungry, so they might consider a coup against Lil Kimmie, and I think Kimmie knows this.
So, if he manages to "meet with an American President," something neither his father or grandfather did and can get sanctions lifted to where he can get aid to feed his people (or at least his army), then he gains a lot.
So, if he manages to "meet with an American President," something neither his father or grandfather did and can get sanctions lifted to where he can get aid to feed his people (or at least his army), then he gains a lot.
