For the first time in his reign as the ruthless dictator of North Korean, Kim Jong-un answered a question from a member of the foreign press, The Washington Post reported.
Washington Post reporter David Nakamura asked Kim if he was “confident, feeling good about a deal” just before Kim and President Trump entered their closed-door negotiations. Kim turned to his interpreter and responded to the question, according to the Post.
“It’s too early to tell. I won’t prejudge,” Kim said. “From what I feel right now, I do have a feeling that good results will come.”
Kim tossing a bone to the U.S. press comes after the dictator got the media booted from the hotel he was staying in during the denuclearization summit with Trump in Vietnam. The White House apparently booked the same hotel as Kim to serve as a filing center for American reporters.
When summit coordinators heard about the mix-up, the press was moved to a different location, but not before some members of the media saw Kim arriving at the hotel. North Korean officials ordered Vietnamese security to tell reporters they couldn’t look at Kim or take pictures of him.
Nice. Do not soil the god-king with your merely mortal gaze, you swine. I love having Americans treated that way.
Trump is a corrupt and incompetent Russian puppet, and Kim is a murderous, bloody handed dictator.
But if humiliating Trump creates a dialogue wedge for future U.S. negotiators to make progress on the NK problem, then I’m okay with that. Kim is desperate to be seen on a world stage, and this weakness may be a tool to advance the interests of the U.S. and our regional allies.
Just to be clear- there is no strategy or 3-D chess at play here. If anything good comes of this it will be 50% chance and 50% miracle.
I’m just spit-balling here.
Hey, we know that Donald Trump looks up to people like this tinpot little shit, really dreams of behaving the way they do. Maybe if Kim answers enough questions from US media, the President of the United States will start answering questions from the US media!
Is it too much to hope?
I have to say, even though this was a first…it was really a dull and rather thoughtless question. I can’t believe with this opportunity in hand, this was the best this reporter could have done, even under the circumstances. How about something more substantive…like anything better than “how do you feel?” How about something like, “so when are you gonna let nuclear arms oversight and inspection of your facilities”, instead? Or, “what happened to Otto?” Let Lil Kim know what real press freedom looks like…even if tRump has the same problem as Kim Jong-Un does.
“Is it true that you that once killed a guy by throwing him into pen with a dozen starving dogs? Follow up, were those 20mm or 30mm antiaircfaft guns that that you killed your uncle with?”