Trump loves to shower praise and more, on despots that shower things at him. Besides Russia, the Saudi establishment frequently fill the most expensive suites at his Washington DC hotel.
But somehow no correspondent or interest group has been asking what does Kim have to dangle at Trump.
Once there were the anti-cult organizations, only the Cultic Studies Journal and it’s Conferences are left, that now dwell only the little cults, no longer condemning the Kim Dynasty as a viscous cult. Interest in Sun Mung Moon showering money and influence in North Korea (the amount amazing),EVEN IN SOUTH KOREA, FEW KNOW EXTENT OF REV. MOON'S EMPIRE Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/03/28/even-in-south-korea-few-know-extent-of-rev-moons-empire/9cff7bc3-2ad1-4d37-8d6f-8bac81934659/?utm_term=.549c3285fba1
ended with Moon’s death, but Moon’s influence Washington Times newspaper and other outlets especially in North Korea influential as ever.
Trump met Kim without his aids, and the transmits kept private. As Trump plans for another meeting with Kim Jong Un, he is condemning and insulting the intelligence briefings on whether it it likely that North Korea would ever give up nukes, the officials who would fight back had all quit when Trump made a greatly exaggerated claim that he was going to quickly remove troops from Syria. This occurred right after December 20, Kim defiantly said he would only remove Nukes when the US did, and marched off to a trip China. This would have made Trump look weak even to part of his base except for the Syrian distraction.
With all the distractions over the government shutdown and Syria the press didn’t even note that Trump was saying Kim will remove nukes when Kim said otherwise.
Besides Nukes North Korea must be looking in to chemical warfare considering the sophisticated chemical attack on exiled rival Kim Jong Nam, the following site details a sophisticated Chemical and biological warfare program apparently unless I missed something not repeated elsewhere even again in the Washington Post,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-message-behind-the-murder-north-koreas-assassination-sheds-light-on-chemical-weapons-arsenal/2017/07/06/998b1c38-5d54-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?utm_term=.076cdfabfb93
And I think more importantly as Trump ever excites his base to do anything for him the possibility of force with foreign help to keep him in office becomes a distinct possibility.
I have a lot more to add to this possibility, but now will suggest some responses.
It will be a grim peace if North Koreans will continue to be punish or worse anyone who tries to leave North Korea without government permission.
I would like to see an impromptu march from South Korea to the North Korean border trying to continue into the North with the marchers baskets containing things North Koreans want and a peace or two on banned contraband that the North Korean army wants broken down a piece in each basket the marchers are trying to march into the North with. I hope others come up with ideas that link attempting peace with opening up North Korea’s closed society. Maybe, South Korea should attempt close relations with China
Now I’ll continue with the bad news every North Korean dissident who contacts the west has been caught like with the USSR when Robert Hanssen was in charge of the US spy program in the USSR. In addition the information on dissidents who had escaped to the West was hacked. Dissidents can often exaggerate or even lie but it is almost impossible to know what countries like North Korea are up to without their help.
Almost every move Trump makes is to excite his base. Though he also made a shallow economic upturn for every minority group where the poor can find a job without benefits or safeguards on safety, not necessary more take home money, then they had with some public assistance, attacks on the environment or any can of guarantee against the next economic downturn collapsing into an overwhelming depression.
Back in 1971 Sun Myung Moon and the Korean CIA engaged in a sophisticated lobbying campaign to force the US into war with North Korea. Moon ended up investing in North Korea to change it. It’s shallow preachy propaganda got mixed in Moon’s Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. When Dennis Rodman back in 2013 went to North Korea praising Kim he was considered weird. whyy.org/...
Ominously Dennis Rodman said said Trump wanted to go to North Korea as well. The Moonie Washington Times Newspaper was extremely supportive of Trump from the beginning of his Presidential campaign
The Moonies in Nicaragua helped the Contra’s attack the Nicaraguan Government,
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Under Reagan a US diplomat maybe in Qatar or a near by Arab Emirate brazenly said his religion was Unification Church he might have been some kind of valuable probably being a go between between the US Israel and its contacts in the Arab world, spies. If Trump needs foreign help to stay in office US Trumpians are not an organized militia.
It is even possible when Trump declares a national emergency the sh-t will hit the fan. At the bare minimum it is not true that Trumps Korean policy is a distraction, please see
Despots Unite a Joke or a Real Danger,
www.dailykos.com/...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/19/1827653/-North-Korea-s-slow-but-smashing-road-toward-victory
