The Dysfunctional Relationship Between Trump And Kim By Jacob G. Hornberger !!!!
(2019-07-02 at 12:42:36 )

The Dysfunctional Relationship between Trump and Kim by Jacob G. Hornberger

The relationship between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has got to rank among the most dysfunctional relationships in history.

Recall the big crisis with North Korea that President Trump ignited soon after coming into office, a crisis that threw his supporters, his opponents, and the mainstream press into a classic tizzy.

President Trumps thesis was that North Korea posed a grave threat to United States "National Security" (whatever that term means) simply by virtue of North Koreas possession of nuclear weapons.

President Trump demanded that Kim eliminate his nukes or else face the fire of a United States carpet-bombing nuclear attack on his country, one that would make the United States nuclear attacks on Japan look like childs play.

Kim knew, however, that if he dismantled his nuclear weapons, North Korea would be subject to a United States regime-change operation, similar to the ones that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have initiated against Iraq, Cuba, Libya, Iran, Guatemala, Afghanistan, and many other countries.

Kim understood that his nuclear weapons were the only chance he had to deter a United States regime-change operation against his country.

So, the world watched in horror as the two nations came to the brink of war.

Fortunately, President Trump backed down, which defused the crisis, causing him to wonder whether he would win the Nobel Peace Prize for ratcheting down the crisis that he himself ignited.

Kim and Trump decided to meet at a high-level summit in an attempt to resolve their differences. President Trump demanded a dismantling of North Koreas nukes. Kim claimed that he was amenable to that but only if the United States government were to lift its brutal economic sanctions against North Korea and only if North Korea could be assured that it would not be targeted for a United States regime-change operation after its nukes were destroyed.

Significantly, President Trump claims that he fell in love with Kim at that summit meeting.

Judging from President Trumps profuse praise of Kim, there is no reason to doubt his sincerity regarding his affection for this communist dictator.

President Trump even set aside any criticism of Kim for supposedly causing the death of young American citizen Otto Warmbier, who had been returned by North Korea in a vegetative state after having been incarcerated for stealing a communist propaganda poster.

Also forgotten were the snubs that Vice President Pence delivered to North Korean officials at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. President Trump was even caught on camera saluting a North Korean communist general.

For this part, Kim was just as effusive as Trump regarding his new relationship with a United States president.

Since that summit, he has showered President Trump with accolades and praise.

And he continues to assure President Trump that he does, in fact, intend to "denuclearize" just as soon as the sanctions are lifted and he is assured that North Korea will not be targeted by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency for regime change.

A second summit, held in Vietnam, which, like North Korea, is headed by a communist regime, resulted in no progress toward denuclearization and was even cut short by President Trump.

Just a few days ago, the two leaders met again at the Korean DMZ in the hopes of reopening talks to resolve the differences.

The media is reporting that President Trump is now willing to accept North Koreas possession of nuclear weapons, something that President Trump claimed not too long ago constituted a grave threat to United States "National Security."

Remember: When he ignited the initial crisis, President Trump was threatening to carpet-bomb North Korea with nuclear bombs if it refused to denuclearize.

There is a fundamental problem, however, with the intimate relationship between Trump and Kim: trust.

In order for two people who have fallen in love with each other to establish a mutual and long-lasting relationship, they have to trust each other.

With no trust, the relationship is doomed.

A lack of trust between Kim and Trump goes to the heart of why their relationship is so dysfunctional.

Consider the fact that while President Trump has fallen in love with Kim and has made him his new BFF, he continues to enforce one of the most brutal systems of economic sanctions in history against North Korea, with the aim of killing as many North Koreans as possible.

After all, President Trump knows that North Korea is an extremely poor society, one in which millions of North Koreans have starved to death over the decades under socialist rule.

President Trumps sanctions are designed to target even more North Koreans with death in the hope that that will cause Kim to denuclearize.

There is only one word to describe a relationship in which one ruler is embracing another ruler while, at the same time, trying to force him into submitting to demands by killing his citizenry.

That word is "dysfunctional."

Moreover, President Trump is using United States sanctions to prevent South Korea and North Korea from establishing closer relations.

If that is not dysfunctional, I do not know what is.

Would closer relations between North and South not be a good thing??

At the same time, however, President Trump assures Kim that Mr. Trump can, in fact, be trusted.

The United States government has no interest in regime-change for North Korea, President Trump soothingly assures Kim.

In fact, as soon as North Korea denuclearizes, President Trump assures Kim, the United States government will help develop North Korea beaches into a massive condo project, one that will make North Korea communists rich.

Yet, at the same time President Trump and his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, are doing everything they can to incite a war with Iran, after United States officials were successful in getting Iran to end its nuclear-weapons program.

Moreover, both Mr. Trump and Mr. Bolton have targeted Venezuela with a regime-change operation, knowing that it lacks the capacity to defend itself with nuclear weapons.

How is Kim supposed to trust Mr. Trump and Mr. Bolton when he sees what Trump and Bolton are doing to Iran and Venezuela??

How can Kim be certain that President Trump and Mr. Bolton will not do the same thing to North Korea on the day that Kim destroys his last nuclear bomb???

He can not.

Like I say, a very dysfunctional relationship.

The solution to all this mayhem?

Forget trying to establish an intimate relationship with a communist dictator.

Simply bring all United States troops home from North Korea and discharge them.

United States troops should never have been sent into Korea in the first place.

They have no business there today.

Leave Korea to the Koreans.

More fundamentally, bring an end to the United States governments decades-long foreign policy of interventionism.

Our nation was founded on non-interventionism in the affairs of other nations.

It is time to restore that founding principle.

Bring all the troops home from everywhere.

Stop the meddling in the affairs of other nations.

Liberate the United States of American people to travel anywhere in the world and trade with whomever they want, including North Korea.

End the United States of Americas role as the international policeman and regime-changer.

That is a key to restoring liberty, peace, prosperity, and harmony with the people of the world.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!