Korea Summit Cancelled

If you're a leftist you're laughing at how Trump failed in canceling the summit between the US and the two Koreas this June. If you're a Ron Paulite you're screaming that the sky is falling and that "the Jews" have infiltrated the US government and Trump is their puppet. People who have read The Art of the Deal (which is one of the best books ever written, and you can find it in the Recommended Books section) understand exactly what Trump is doing. I've often criticised the idea of "4D chess" as a tool to explain away every bad decision Trump has made, but pulling out of the Korea summit makes perfect sense.

First the letter which Trump sent to Kim Jong Un announcing his decision to leave the summit:

His Excellency
Kim Jong Un
Chairman of the State Affairs Commission
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Pyongyang

Dear Mr. Chairman:

We greatly appreciate your time, patience, and effort with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions relative to a summit long sought by both parties, which was scheduled to take place on June 12 in Singapore. We were informed that the meeting was requested by North Korea, but that to us is totally irrelevant. I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place. You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.

I felt a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me, and ultimately, it is only that dialogue that matters. Some day, I look very much forward to meeting you. In the meantime, I want to thank you for the release of the hostages who are now home with their families. That was a beautiful gesture and was very much appreciated.

If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write. The world, and North Korea in particular, has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great prosperity and wealth. This missed opportunity is a truly sad moment in history.

Sincerely yours,
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America

Look at what Trump did. He got Kim Jong Un to dismantle his nuclear facilities and release US prisoners without having to do anything. He basically got everything he wanted for free. Now Kim has nothing left to bargain with. Trump will come back later and negotiate peace from a position of strength free of any restrictions or fear of loss.

And Kim WILL come back to the bargaining table. Remember, he stands to lose everything as his nation is being increasingly isolated from the world. North Korea is one major famine away from collapsing. Kim also stands to gain everything if he makes peace. He gets legitimacy on the world stage, he gets to keep living the life of an absolute monarch, he gets to be seen as a great man and a Nobel Prize winner around the world, and he gets all the trade deals that have been denied to North Korea for the better part of a century.

John Bolton messed up big league by saying that the US wants to destroy North Korea and drag Kim Jong Un into a pit of anal rape like Hitlery Roddamn Clinton did to Gaddafi's Libya. Trump is now doing what he can to rectify that horrible, horrible mistake.

Trump is essentially doing the same thing with Iran. He took us out of the horribly bad nuclear deal, wrecking further Obama's "legacy" while potentially placing Iran back into dire financial straits, gaining without giving.

This happens to be something common in the barter culture of the Middle East. You make a demand for a price and negotiate with the person who is selling. When you feel like you are getting nowhere you walk away and the desperate seller will make far more concessions just to keep you as a customer and unload their overpriced junk.

Trump, a businessman rather than some Ivy League stuffed shirt politician, understands negotiation better than Obama, who gave Iran billions of US taxpayer dollars to impress European socialists, or Bill Clinton, who gave North Korea nukes in the first place. Not only does he understand negotiation better, he understands non-European cultures better, which tend to be very macho, rather than the castrato culture US politicians are used to dealing with. Since we're dealing with rational people in North Korea and Iran Trump stands to win big league on the international stage and secure re-election in 2020. All he has to do is keep Bolton's war boner under control and the world will become a far safer, more prosperous place for everyone.