Very well said! And probably closest to the truth!
unfortunately those were old talking points of a few pundits that do sound good but are factually untrue. Especially proven of late as most words are coming from Kim and Nk himself or professional analysts on NK.
There is basically no one left saying it was anyone else but the USA. Aside from haters.
As a matter of fact, NK has always wanted a positive relationship with the USA over most countries so they werent bound by China's hand. China gains little by this while the biggest winners is NK, SK and the USA. On a security level, all of them I guess. On a financial loss level, Japan as NK would most likely be award 5-10 billion dollars for past war crimes that was given to south korea but not north korea yet as they have been a rogue country.
NK aim was always to amend ties with the USA, so its not mostly intertwined with just China and Russia.
“An end to US enmity remains Kim Jong Un’s aim just as it was his grandfather’s and father’s for the past thirty years,” says Leon Sigal, author of
Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea.
During the Clinton years
During the Cold War, Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, sought to reduce over-dependence on China by working with the Soviet Union. As the Soviet Union was about to collapse, he reached out to the U.S., Japan and South Korea for the same reason.
Kim, 36, came into office in 2012 promising to modernize and improve his country’s economy. Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” to force him to abandon nuclear weapons has made that difficult.
Washington (CNN)Any way you cut it, President Donald Trump is entitled to significant credit for Friday's historic opening between the two Koreas.
National security experts, and even the
, are crediting Mr. Trump for bringing North Korea to the table.
"I think the president deserves credit for getting us this far. No president has put as much pressure on North Korea as Donald Trump has, and that's a good thing," CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell said Friday on "CBS This Morning." Morell spent more than three decades at the CIA, becoming the deputy and acting director. But he said the outcome of the Kim-Moon summit was "not surprising."
Normally I can take things with a grain of salt. Your posts are what derails a thread!
Have no idea what's going on,lol.
I'm so sorry. I was so angry when I posted that. I put your name in by mistake. I can't edit it now to remove it. Poor Slot 
