President Trump shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their expanded bilateral meeting. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times: The key word in the Trump-Kim show
By reaffirming the Panmunjom Declaration, the US President has committed to bringing its military back from South Korea and thus a complete denuclearization of the South as well as the North.
The Trump-Kim geopolitical reality-TV show – surreal for some – offered unparalleled entries to the annals of international diplomacy. It will be tough to upstage the US President pulling an iPad and showing Kim Jong-un the cheesy trailer of a straight-to-video 1980s B-grade action movie – complete with a Sylvester Stallone cameo – casting the two leaders as heroes destined to save the world’s 7 billion people.
Away from the TV, the former “Rocket Man”, now respectfully recast in Trump terminology as “Chairman Kim”, did strike a formidable coup by completely erasing the dreaded acronym CVID – or “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization” – from the final text of the Singapore joint statement.
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WNU Editor: I have been asked to provide an example that illustrates how different the post-Singapore Summit coverage has been between the Asian Press, and the Western Press. The above analysis is from the Asia Times, and in my opinion its observations are spot on .... unlike the garbage that I have been reading and listening to non-stop from U.S. and Canadian sources since the end of the summit. So read it .... and try to find something similar in the New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington Post, and all the alphabet networks.
