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China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong Un invites South Korea's Moon to Pyongyang
2018-02-11
[DAWN] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
invited the South's President Moon Jae-in for a summit in Pyongyang Saturday, Seoul said, even as the US warned against falling for Pyongyang's Olympic charm offensive.

The invitation, delivered by Kim's visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South's leader "at the earliest date possible", said a front man for the presidential Blue House.

An inter-Korean summit would be the third of its kind, after Kim's father and predecessor Kim Jong Il met the South's Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 2000 and 2007 respectively, both of them in Pyongyang.

But it could threaten to sow division between Moon, who has long argued for engagement with the nuclear-armed North to bring it to the negotiating table, and US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, who last year traded personal insults and threats of war with Kim.

Washington insists that Pyongyang ‐ which is under multiple sets of UN Security Council sanctions ‐ must show a willingness to give up its weapons before any negotiations can happen.

Posted by:Fred

#4  frank

warning spoiler





sadly Admiral Ackbar died in "The Last Jedi"
Posted by: lord garth   2018-02-11 20:50  

#3  Big time. Huge propaganda victory at the least.
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-11 11:25  

#2  Admiral Akhbar: "It's a trap!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-02-11 10:25  

#1  If any country can be said to have "battered wife syndrome", it's South Korea.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-02-11 01:49  

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