More recently Chairman Xi Jinping visited Kim on a rare visit to North Korea to reinforce the traditional friendship between China and North Korea.
In China's thinking Kim remains hostage and Xi is highlighting his captive capabilities in advance of G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan expanded to include a separate meeting with President Trump. Xi believes he has created leverage with Trump in exchange for economic and trade concessions.
But he hasn't.
We're treated with a front row seat to world history as it unfolds. Early on, Trump understood the U.S. will not eliminate the threat of North Korean nuclear weapons by confronting North Korea directly. This puts Trump ahead and above all of his predecessor presidents. Instead, he'll eliminate the North Korean threat by creating and winning an economic war with China. This was previously unthinkable.
It is not possible for Chinese to admit such a defeat. That is, they cannot appear to appease Trump in any way. As Trump prevails in the chaos Trump created, to save face China will give the concession to South Korea instead. This describes the great magnanimity of Chairman Xi. Trump doesn't care who gets the credit so long as the threat is eliminated of North Korea acting on orders of China.
China now owns all hostility. They can no longer use N. Korea that way. That punk trick doesn't work anymore. And it is Trump who brought this about by his way of thriving in chaos of his own making. Trump's tariffs will stay in place until China simply behaves fairly. Xi imagined that he created leverage but he has not.
And now Kim is signaling. This photograph is loaded with code. White jacket (white is significant in Koroea), holding the letter with two hands (significant in Asia), separate desk (his actual desk is under the portrait), multiple pens. Kim is seriously considering Trump's "excellent content."
#BREAKING— NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) June 22, 2019
Rodong Sinmun: Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from Trump.
After reading the letter, Kim “said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content.”
More soon @nknewsorg pic.twitter.com/APNJvhU6H6
Incidentally. In a previous video of the Asian woman demonstrating the self-heating hot pot, she could not read the Chinese ingredients or instructions. She whipped out her phone and used a translating app. The app that she used is excellent. The camera is focused on the text and it is instantly translated to English over the original text. The app is Google translator. It can be used to read this N.Korea newspaper.
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You get it, especially the part about how everything means something deeper in Asia.
I really get a kick out of the trolls who keep calling Trump dumb when they can't see how he plays them using the same tactics every time.
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