Trump Identifies China as the Source of Kim's "turnaround" in Attitude?

Yesterday a short clip from Arirang confirmed something heard on audio from A Channel a couple of days ago. That was that the Vice Speaker of the Korean National Assembly invited Thae Yong Ho, the defector, to speak to there. This is one of things that aggravated Kim Jong Un, because there was a lot of criticism of him, how the secretariat operates for his family's personal advantage, how they won't give up their nuclear program, etc. The defector Thae has an ax to grind. By appearing in a public government forum, this event was intended to cause trouble. Sim Jae Chol, the Vice Speaker of the National Assembly, invited him to speak. Sim is hostile to Moon, and Tae is hostile to North Korea. The ruling democratic party questions if Tae has even seen Kim Jong Un once.

In addition to this, activists are sending propaganda leaflets over the DMZ in balloons which is another encroachment on the reduction of tensions and "hostile acts" promised at the Panmumjeom summit.

Sim Jae Chol was the president of the Seoul U student council government in the period of the infamous Democracy Movement uprising in Kwangju. He caused the student uprising against the military dictatorship in Seoul, which had occupied the Seoul Train Station, to withdraw and disperse at a critical time in May 1980. He is currently an opposition party member of Jayoo Hanguk Dang, Liberty Korea Party. He scheduled this event in the assembly with Thae Yoeng Ho, about the time of 5.18, which is the commemoration day for the slaughter by military forces of Chun Do Hwan of democracy movement activists in Kwangju. He is portrayed in movies and elsewhere as enabling the massacre in Kwangju, by backing down in the student demonstration confrontation in Seoul at the time. In other words, he's criticized as an enabler at the time of crucial events. Lately, he's been fighting Moon's policies toward North Korea.

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So if we look at South Korean defector activities, egged on apparently by politicians on the scene, and forces behind the scenes, in addition to the US and Korean military efforts to avoid the common sense restraints put the on the joint military exercises, and the one sided, unreasonable demands from the US, this is what Kim has had his subordinates and press complain about. I bring all this up, because the latest A Channel report is saying that Trump had an unpleasant conversation with Moon, questioning him about Kim's turn around in attitude. Well, if he didn't know he could ask his own people in DOD or the CIA. Evidently, he has no idea what they doing. Maybe they won't tell him. He's obviously clueless about negotiating on the nuclear issue. It was always a pipe dream to think that it could be done any other way, than the way it was done before, or the way it was done with Iran. The main difficulty is realizing that prior difficulties and breakdowns in negotiations with the North were due to people on the US side who didn't want the agreement then, and never did. One of these people is the strident neocon Bolton. The others are the generals and other national security sector personnel who see their empire and arms markets in the far east in jeopardy if a deal goes through.

Trump has no idea what the "Libyan method" is and what the reference implies - lack of reciprocal and binding obligations on a step by step basis to build confidence. Trump seems to think that his vague promises, of rewards later, is going to reassure Kim. Senator Graham now calls it "win-win," or war. This isn't how negotiations work. The people who criticize Kim or the North Koreans as people who can't be trusted, who broke the agreement before, who are back to the their old tricks, etc., are simply the cheering section for the US, and don't understand the problem. They can't be taken seriously as analysts, because they are advocates for the war industry's business as usual.

They're going to try to get Adm. Harris approved as the US Ambassador to South Korea just before the summit with Kim, so that's another stick in the eye for the North Korea, which referred to Japan just within the last few days, as the "one hundred year enemy." Harris is regarded as a "hard liner," with respect to North Korea. In fact, I attribute the dancing around about Max Thunder to him and General Brooks, the USFK commander.