Yeah now the summit is called off completely, wtf...
Well...
There are two things going on.
1. US idiocy
2. Korean idiocy.
I was angered when Obama aided the rebels against Qaddafi.
Yet another instance of Obama being a (pardon the expression) asshole.
Qaddafi bargained away his nukes in good faith. Then we attacked him.
No dictator should ever trust the US again, particularly with nuclear disarmament.
Both Pense and Bolton mentioned Qaddafi as a model. To them it meant total disarmament.
To North Korea it meant - after we sucker you in we will attack you.
Mentioning Qaddafi is a jerk move.
The Koreans weren't returning our phone calls and did not meet with the planning team. That (and some other things) were a planned insult.
They wanted us to beg for the meeting and lose face.
Trump did the only thing he could. He wrote a very polite letter to Kim calling off the meeting since there seemed to be tensions.
Now the ball is in Kim's court.
The Korean's gained nothing and simply delayed the meeting.
North Korea responded almost immediately
Bloomberg on Twitter
The bottom line:
They now know that if they mess with Trump he will walk away. This limits the amount of posturing they can do.
However, we are going to have to offer them an ironclad agreement they won't be Qaddafied.
Damn, Obama is such a jerk it just infuriates me.
Update:
Trump Blames China’s Xi Jinping for Sabotaging the Kim Jong Un Summit
Further it looks like XI (China) put Kim up to this to test Trump.
frankly this is starting to get annoying
It has been annoying for 30 years. The handling of the Kims has been so ham handed it makes you believe Trump's predecessors, from both parties, were mentally deficient.