Sometimes pictures are really worth a thousand words. Before Kim Jun Un and Moon Jae-in walked into their two-hour meeting they didn’t show much emotion. When they left the change was extraordinary.
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall and hear them express their reactions to the saber-rattling posturing of Donald Trump. Kim Jung Un already has said that “we’re the same people.” and expressed his desire to reconcile the differences between North and South eventually to reunite. I wonder if one of them said “let's get this done on our own, after all we’re both Koreans, we share the same peninsula, the same heritage, we don’t need that unstable glory-hound Donald Trump hogging the limelight.”
"우리 모두가 우리 둘다 한국인이긴하지만 같은 반도를, 똑같은 유산으로 공유하기 때문에, 우리는 불안한 영광을 가진 도널드 트럼프가 각광을받을 필요가 없다"고 말했다.
"uli moduga uli dulda hangug-in-iginhajiman gat-eun bandoleul, ttoggat-eun yusan-eulo gong-yuhagi ttaemun-e, ulineun bul-anhan yeong-gwang-eul gajin doneoldeu teuleompeuga gaggwang-eulbad-eul pil-yoga eobsda"go malhaessda.
This is how the Wall Street Journal puts it:
Mr. Kim greeted Mr. Moon, she said, “like an old friend, instead of an awkward handshake.”
Mr. Moon had been a chief proponent of direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang, and said he was “perplexed” by Mr. Trump’s cancellation of the meeting.
Go Myong-Hyun of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a private think tank in Seoul, said the two Korean leaders may also have been motivated by an attempt to stave off a return to U.S.-led pressure and sanctions against Pyongyang, as Mr. Trump said this week.
“The ultimate goal of this summit was to ensure that ‘maximum pressure’ doesn’t surface again in Washington after the cancellation of the U.S.-North Korea summit,” Mr. Go said.
Mr. Moon, eager to keep talks on track, was able to draw on his historically high domestic approval ratings to continue to push things forward with the North, even in the face of Mr. Trump’s calls for a return to “maximum pressure,” Mr. Bell said.
“Moon has positioned himself as the peacemaker, and he’s riding the wave of 80% approval to basically push forward his agenda to reach out to North Korea,” he said.
The message from Messrs. Moon and Kim, he added, was: “Why do we need the U.S. doing anything if Trump is going to oscillate between ‘fire and fury’ and sharing a hamburger with Kim? Maybe we should move things forward by ourselves.”
Reference for Kim and Moon to help them understand Trump:
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