The saga of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, the stunted little gargoyle with bad hair from a long line of stunted little gargoyles with bad hair who have ruled over North Korea in the world's only Communist hereditary monarchy, continues. The gargoyle and his iron-jawed sister Kim Yo Jong, who we suspect is the one who's really making all the decisions in the Hermit Kingdom, seem to think they can dictate terms to the United States. On Tuesday, we brought you the story that North Korea had expressed a willingness to talk to President Trump, as long as denuclearization was on the table.
President Trump's response was succinct and to the point.
President Donald Trump remains open to meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in hopes of achieving denuclearization, the White House said, even as Pyongyang warned against any pressure to abandon its nuclear arsenal.
"President Trump in his first term held three historic summits with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un that stabilized the Korean Peninsula and achieved the first-ever leader-level agreement on denuclearization," a White House official told Fox News Digital.
"The President retains those objectives and remains open to engaging with Leader Kim to achieve a fully de-nuclearized North Korea."
In other words, a strict restatement of the original terms. And really, the Hermit Kingdom is hardly in any position to be dictating terms here.
Here's the funny bit:
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, said in remarks carried by state media that relations between Trump and her brother are "not bad." However, she warned that any attempt to pressure North Korea to denuclearize would be viewed as "nothing but a mockery."
If there is a nation on this planet that is well and truly deserving of mockery, it's North Korea.
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This is a country whose poverty is so widespread, so pervasive, so total that it can actually be seen from space. Look at the image in that link. Free-market (more or less) South Korea is lit up, vibrant, alive. North Korea is dark, literally and figuratively. The stunted little gargoyle dynasty is hobbling along; the North Korean people, by and large, are undernourished, undereducated, and brutally oppressed. Kim Jong Un remains the only fat guy in the country, which tells one all one needs to know about the supposed "egalitarianism" of communist states. On Tuesday, on this topic, I wrote:
You can always spot these kinds of regimes by looking at one thing: Look at the borders, and see which way the guns are facing. Free nations face outward, to keep people from coming in uncontrolled. In repressive regimes like North Korea, the guns face in to keep people from fleeing.
And yet, people are risking those machine guns to try to get away, because even rural China looks like a land of milk and honey compared to North Korea.
This isn't a country that is in any position to dictate terms to the United States. President Trump gets that. One wonders if Little Rocket Man does. Throughout the history of this inexplicable hereditary kingdom, plenty of people have come to grief telling whichever stunted little gargoyle was in charge at the time something he didn't want to hear. Some of those people were tied to a pole and shot - with anti-aircraft guns. This begs the question: Does even Kim Jong Un really understand how weak his country is?
They have nukes, yes. And no, they aren't going to give them up. These nukes are literally the only reason anyone is willing to talk to this lunatic nation at all. Barring a regime change a a drastic reorganization of that nation's government, they are going to remain a nuclear power. But that doesn't mean that the United States, or indeed any nation of the West, should stop pressuring them over it.
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