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Trump agrees to first-ever meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un

President Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May for high-level talks toward a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, a South Korean official said outside the White House on Thursday.

It would be the first face-to-face meeting in history between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

The opening came through shuttle diplomacy by a South Korean delegation that arrived in Washington on Thursday. Trump heralded the development as a “major announcement” after speaking with the South Korean president.

"I told President Trump that in our meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he's committed to denuclearization. He pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests," South Korean national security adviser Chung Eui-yong told reporters after meeting with Trump at the White House.

Significantly, there was no insistence that the United States and South Korea suspend joint military exercises.

Prediction: the MSM will not be happy with this.

Nation Building

For argument let's stipulate that North Korea is conquered and Kim is dead, military is wiped clean. What should be done then? North Korea has for generations been belligerently communist. There are several possibilities.

First, walk away from the devastation. Leave it to the citizens to take it from there. This would not be nation-building.

Second, walk away from the devastation, but provide recovery services; ignore all subsequent consequences.

Third, maintain a military presence, provide recovery services. Allow the politics to flow independently. This would annoy China.

Fourth, maintain a military presence, provide recovery services, force and manage popular elections. This would really annoy China.

Fifth, give North Korea to South Korea as a unification. The USA would support the unified Korea just as it did South Korea. China would be apoplectic.

Sixth, allow the UN to decide the fate of North Korea's destiny.

Seventh, declare North Korea to be the 51st American State.

Now. If we would like for North Korea to be a civilized nation into perpetuity, which choice (or one I missed) is Correct?

NORK Update

Vox Day, on North Korea:

How fortunate that the USA has pledged to send more troops to Afghanistan. That should totally help, especially given the fact that the Navy is on stand-down due to its demonstrated inability to avoid deadly, high-speed cargo ships.

Now, now, Vox. Afghanistan is on the other side of the NORKs: we have them surrounded.