{"id":398065,"date":"2019-03-05T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-trump-and-kim-summit-in-hanoi-was-trump-forced-to-walk\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:37:12","slug":"the-trump-and-kim-summit-in-hanoi-was-trump-forced-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-trump-and-kim-summit-in-hanoi-was-trump-forced-to-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump and Kim Summit in Hanoi: Was Trump forced to Walk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Yes, Mr. Trump had to walk. As he didn\u2019t get his way, he had the audacity to get up and walk out of a meeting with Kim Jong-un, the President of the DPRK, of North Korea. As arrogant as it behooves the king of a failing and crumbling empire. But did he walk by his own will? Or was he, the most \u201cpowerful man in the world\u201d, coerced by his handlers, represented by former CIA boss, Mike Pompeo, to abandon the denuclearization negotiations; i.e., no concessions on killer sanctions, or as Kim Jong-un said, \u201cwe would like to see the five sanctions (out of eleven) lifted, those that most harm our people and their economic well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Pyongyang was ready to permanently shut down the Yongbyon nuclear complex, an important nuclear research center for DPRK. Kim Jong-un was also ready to invite international observers to witness the dismantling process, and he was ready to stop medium range missile testing \u2013 all for giving his people, the North Koreans a \u2018breather\u2019 \u2013 a better life.<\/p>\n<p>He requested some of the most harming sanctions to be lifted. A reasonable request. And at the outset it looked like Trump was happy with this arrangement. He had already basically agreed to stopping the aggressive annual military maneuvers with South Korea on the borders of the DPRK.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Trump was in no hurry. This was the second of a series of one-to-one summits with Kim. Trump\u2019s ego seems to enjoy this publicity. Why not make it last a bit longer? Give a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/the-trump-and-kim-summit-in-hanoi-was-trump-forced-to-walk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Mr. Trump had to walk. As he didn\u2019t get his way, he had the audacity to get up and walk out of a meeting with Kim Jong-un, the President of the DPRK, of North Korea. As arrogant as it behooves the king of a failing and crumbling empire. But did he walk by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}