President Donald Trump, who seems to always be looking for a way to pat himself on the back, wants us all to know that things are going swimmingly with North Korea, and soon the isolated nation will be booming economically.
The president, who will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam later this month, posted two tweets Friday evening regarding North Korea:
My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong Un. It will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 & 28. I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim & advancing the cause of peace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket – an Economic one!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
This isn’t the first time Trump has eagerly advertised the supposed economic potential of North Korea if the U.S. is able to convince Kim to denuclearize. Such an agreement would also include the lifting of sanctions.
Trump made similar postings on social media shortly before he met with Kim in June 2018. That summit was held in Singapore:
Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018
The chance that North Korea will agree to give up its nuclear arsenal seems remote at best. Just last week Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel told a Senate committee that it’s highly unlikely North Korea will ever surrender all of its nuclear weapons.
Perhaps Trump envisions a giant Trump Tower in downtown Pyongyang one day, but if the results from the second Trump-Kim summit are as negligible as the first, no American construction companies will be putting up skyscrapers in North Korea anytime soon.
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