In their letter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for any agreement with North Korea to meet five key points: that all weapons of mass destruction be removed or dismantled that there be no uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing that it end all ballistic missile testing that it allow “anytime, anywhere” inspections of its facilities and that a deal be permanent. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally averse to publicly criticizing fellow Republican leaders, warned the president last week that “you could get snookered.” Let’s get back to reality.The concerns have been voiced on both sides of the aisle in Congress, where top Senate Democrats have sent Trump a letter insisting any deal will be a bad one unless it forces North Korea to comply with a long list of onerous demands. His father and predecessor Kim Jong-il boasted of never needing to use a toilet, according to an official biography. After all, this is the same man who told his people that he learned to drive a car by the age of three, that he can change the weather, and that he climbed the country’s highest mountain wearing a topcoat and dress shoes. Trump knows, or should know, what we all know, and that is Jong-un’s button claim is just fantasy, even though a member of his regime may have placed a red button on his desk to make him feel more powerful and important. Now, we have Trump, and there seems to be no end in sight to the war of words, which hopefully does not trigger a nuclear war. However, each of those presidents has had enough sense to ignore the raving dictators of the Hermit Kingdom. North Korea has been trying to get a rise out of American presidents for about 70 years, puffing out its chest and boasting of its alleged strength.
But could Trump’s trash talk, throw a wrench in the works and possibly even cloud the upcoming 2018 Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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