6-15-2018

The Singapore Summit is a Historical First

The June 12^th, 2018 meeting between President Trump and Leader Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was a meeting of historical importance. It formalized the agreement and commitment of Kim Jong Un for the total denuclearization of the Korean peninsula to be accomplished over the next 2 ½ years. The agreement further stipulates the full and total verifiable and irreversible dismantling and removal of nuclear weapons, material and factories in the DPRK, under the watchful eyes of international inspection teams. The agreement also calls for the remains of all American war dead from the Korean War are returned to the United States.

Read my article “The Back Story on North Korea” and then tell me nothing has changed.

What do we know about North Korea? Virtually nothing comes out in the media unless it is connected to President Trump. Read this Huffington Post article that came out last year and it will open your eyes to the history of what has been called “The Hermit Kingdom” since the 19^th century.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/17/north-korea-history-isolation_n_5991000.html

North Korea has been isolated since the 14^th century when ruled by the Choson dynasty and went into self-isolation even before being divided at the end of World War II. In 1910 Japan annexed Korea. It was not until after Japan lost World War II that Korea was split into American and Soviet controlled territories. Josef Stalin installed Kim II Sung as North Korea’s leader. After reigning for over 50 years he was replaced by his son Kim Jong II, and later his grandson Kim Jong Un as Supreme Leader. During the Korean War which began on June 25, 1950, North and South Korea were backed by their allies and American bombing raids virtually flattened North Korea, leaving one building standing in the capitol. When the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953 it ended the conflict but didn’t end the war, which has kept both nations in a constant state of tension. Kim II Song developed a theory of self-reliance (Juche) that remains the countries ideology today. His three principles: political independence, economic self-reliance and military autonomy. It is the military stance which caused North Korea to become a true hermit kingdom, not cooperating with outside powers.

So threatening to bomb North Korea back into the Stone Age would be a second time for them.

In 2002 President George W. Bush included North Korea in the Axis of Evil and international nuclear inspectors were expelled from Pyongyang. The next year North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and revealed it had nuclear weapons.

There have been many treaties since 1985, with each one being broken by North Korea. But there has never been an American President who has expressed interest in talking to the leader of North Korea until President Trump.

It appears to have been the general world view consensus that North Korea (DPRK) is a bad boy and it does no good to deal with them. As long as they leave us alone, we’ll leave them alone. American presidents seem to have felt that we hope there can be lasting peace but the chances of that are slim to none. North Korea can’t be trusted to destroy their nuclear weapons in good faith. So why try? We put sanctions on them and that good enough, right? Has anybody asked our living presidents why they didn’t think to talk to the leader of North Korea? It would be interesting to hear their excuses.

Here is what my unnamed Facebook source posted which pretty much sums up the lefts liberal thought process on why the Singapore Summit was a flop:

“Nothing has really changed except Trump recognized Kim as a equal and as a totalitarian that he could admire. Everyone hopes that a lasting peace can be accomplished but people (Democrat and Republican) know that the chances of that are slim. North Korea can not be trusted in good faith to destroy their nuclear weapons or to stop work on them.”

I’m mildly amazed at the thought process that goes into making a statement like that. I wonder where do these people get their information, “liberals are us dot com”? It is thinking like that which has kept the DPRK an unknown entity for centuries and caused every American president since Truman to base their feelings on North Korea without seriously attempted to deal with them.

President Donald Trump has had the foresight to look ahead at what could be, rather than just what we see. Without lifting sanctions, but conceding to terminate Korean theatre training exercises the ball is back in the court of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to honor the agreement of face the possibility of increased sanctions and/or military action to insure the total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Based on what the Huffington Post writer has written the North Korean kingdom is in economically dire straits with little hope of evading a kingdom collapse. In an attempt to keep is nuclear program going Kim’s regime has employed massive slave labor of its citizens as the norm.

What is hopeful is the successful denuclearization, relaxed sanctions and outside foreign aid to the people of the DPRK, including the closing of ALL labor camps and returning families to their homes again. What Kim has seen in China and what he saw in Singapore could be the carrot to bring the hermit kingdom out of its shell. It could bring good news to the peoples of Korea and end the isolationism that is destroying North Korea.

What about the United States? We are the greatest nation on earth, by far. Our form of government is one of a kind, yet our liberal leaning left “progressives” are attempting to backwards engineer our country into a state worse than the hermit kingdom.

It’s past time to take the blinders off America! History will show that not only were the past 8 years of the Obama administration bad for the nation, but especially bad for the American people. Rather than scandal free as Barack Obama claims, the fruition of the swamp are beginning to show what really went on inside our most “transparent” government ever.

What history is recording now, and will be clearly visible is that regardless of what some Americans have been told and believe as true, Donald Trump has been a good president and remains committed to battle the fake news, personal slander and attempts to subvert his presidency. History will record Donald Trump as one of America’s greatest presidents. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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6-14-2018

President Trump Gives Kim Jong Un a Pass

“All Cattle no Hat!”

This article is for all my friends who are still attacking President Trump and at the risk of ending our long and esteemed friendships I must ask – “Are you serious?”

What makes you think that because KJU met with Trump that he is no less or no more the same dictator he was before the meeting? More importantly how do you figure he “got a pass”? Did you not watch the summit? Not even a little?

Seriously my civilian and military buddies I thought you had more on the ball than that, but your statement baffles me and I seriously disagree. Your reasoning is only highlighted by Senator Chuck Schumer’s screwing up an old Texas saying by calling Trump “All cattle and no hat”. Ha Ha Ha!

So let me remind you that when Trump called KJU “Rocketman”, he was attacked by the left and the right for “getting us into a war with North Korea”, right? Then when Trump called KJU honorable for agreeing to meet in Singapore, he was attacked again for calling the terrible dictator honorable, right? When Trump cancelled the Singapore summit he was attacked still again for not keeping his word or worse. When Trump agreed once again to meet KJU in Singapore he was attacked for changing his mind or whatever the left could think of for agreeing one more time to meet.

Now after the summit where KJU was told (twice by Secretary Pompao prior to the summit) by Trump that Total, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization was the only option and once it was completed could lead to lessoning or removal of sanctions and normalizing relations between North Korea and the rest of the outside world is somehow “giving him a pass”, right?

No my friends the summit in Singapore was showing both the stick and the carrot. There was no “pass” given here. In fact the stick included current military training exercises with South Korea, in the face of North Korea which could very easily be used as punitive action if needed. The carrot is Singapore and what North Korea has missed out on becoming over their years of isolationism.

So tell me again how this is considered a pass? I’ll go one further, tell me since the end of Korean War hostilities and since President Truman, when was the last time an American president talked to the leader of the DPRK – About anything? I’m still waiting for an answer? – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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6-13-2018

After The Trump-Kim Summit What’s Next?

On June 12^th, 2018 the historic Singapore Summit between President Donald J. Trump and Leader Kim Jong Un of the DPRK agreed to denuclearize all weapons, stockpiles and factories in an agreement that would reduce or remove sanctions on his beleaguered government affecting millions of Koreans living north of the DMZ. It’s a fact that since the end of Korean War hostilities there has never been a declared end to that war.

By Leader Kim signing a document pledging to President Trump and to the United States the voluntary, total, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea just doesn’t make it happen.  There must be action and results.

This is a great first step and here is something to think about – never before has the President of the United States and the Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ever sat down or met face-to-face to discuss North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program or anything for that matter. This is a historical first for an American President, and a clear demonstration of the art of the deal by President Trump.

We must not get drawn into a false sense of security or think the nuclear threat is over, it is not. Before anything can change it will take action and it was President Trump who said it will take results on the part of Leader Kim and the DPRK.

Except for the meeting of the two leaders, we’ve been down this road with the DPRK before many times with KJU’s father and grandfather and each time the results have been betrayal of similar agreements by North Korea, resulting in sanctions which have hurt the people more than the government.

We can be hopeful that establishing a relationship between the two leaders of these two nations will lead to the action necessary to begin normalizing relations with the DPRK and the rest of the world.

The next steps are crucial and must begin with the DPRK and under close and verifiable supervision. The DPRK nuclear arsenal must be gathered from the four corners of North Korea, where they must be disassembles, loaded on ships for transportation to designated locations outside the DPRK. The equipment and factories must be totally dissembled or destroyed so as never to be usable again. All documentation must be collected, analyzed and then destroyed as well. An international team of inspectors must be given full and complete access to the entire nuclear program, arsenal and factories to insure this is done in a verifiable fashion. Once the process has been completed, then and only then will sanctions be lifted from the DPRK and international aid and assistance begin.

In the event of any deviation from this process must be met with military might (as needed) in order to bring the DPRK back to the negotiation table.

What is also hopeful is that the American people can lay aside their political differences to get behind this president in a show of national unity to see this as a truly historic event with worldwide consequences.

Americans do not have to “pledge allegiance to the Trump” nor even like the president or the actions which some find distasteful or bring up a foul taste in their mouths, but take out the mouthwash, swish it around a few times (2 minutes) then spit it out and move on.

I challenge the members of Congress to reconsider their present stance against President Trump in order to show the American people and the world that the United States of America is “one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So help us God” (Sound familiar?) – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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6-13-2018

The Back Story on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as it turns out is a bit of a puzzle which has been going on for quite some time. American presidents have been dealing toward stopping the North Korean military nuclear program without any success since the early 1962 with President John F. Kennedy. Never has an American President conducted face-to-face talks with the DPRK leader to negotiate a Total, Verifiable and Irreversible De-Nuclearization of North Korea, until the historical Singapore Summit between President Donald J. Trump and Leader Kim Jong Un on June 12, 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

Eight countries have successfully detonated nuclear weapons. Five countries are considered Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons: USA, Russia, UK, France and China.

Since the NPT went into force in 1970, 3 countries were not parties to the treaty have conducted nuclear tests: India, Pakistan and North Korea (withdrew from the NPT in 2003).

Israel is generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but does not acknowledge it while maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity. It is estimated to possess between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

Countries that formerly possessed nuclear weapons: South Africa (developed, then disassembled before joining NPT and former Soviet republics: Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

In 1963 the Soviet Union refused to help North Korea in developing nuclear weapons, as did the Chinese a bit later. Soviet engineers took part in construction of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in North Korea and began conducting an IRT-2000 research reactor in1963, it became operational in1965, then upgraded to 8 MW in 1974. In 1979 North Korea began to build in Yongbyon a second research reactor, an ore processing plant and a fuel rod fabrication plant.

As the North Korean nuclear weapons program dates back to the 1980s, focusing on practical uses of nuclear energy and completion of a nuclear weapons development system, North Korea began to operate facilities for uranium fabrication and conversion and conducted high-explosive detonation tests.

In 1985 North Korea ratified the NPT but did not include the required safeguards agreement with the IAEA until 1992. In 1993 the IAEA concluded the North Korean declaration as incomplete, which they reported to the UN Security Council.

In 1994 the U.S. government signed an agreement to facilitate the supply of two light water reactors to North Korea in exchange for North Korean disarmament. The Agreed Framework fell apart in 2002 and Pakistan admitted that North Korea gained access to Pakistan’s nuclear technology in the late 1990s.

The U.S. accused North Korea of non-compliance and halted oil shipments. In 2003 North Korea withdrew from the NPT. In 2005 North Korea vowed to close the nuclear program.

On October 9, 2006 North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test with an underground explosion. On January 6, 2017 North Korea confirmed it had nuclear weapons.

On March 17, 2007 North Korea announced it was preparing to shut down its main nuclear facility. This was an agreement with a series of six-party talks: North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the USA which had begun in 2003. North Korea agreed to disable the nuclear facility in exchange for fuel aid and normalize talks with the USA and Japan. Aid was delayed from April to July, when it was confirmed the shutdown of the nuclear facility. This agreement fell apart in 2009 when North Korea launched a satellite.

In April 2009 North Korea became a full-fledged nuclear power and on May 25, 2009 a second nuclear test was conducted.

In February 2012 North Korea announced it would suspend uranium enrichment at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center and not conduct further tests of nuclear weapons while productive negotiations with the USA continued. This would include a moratorium on long-range missiles tests, and allowing IAEA inspectors to monitor operations. The USA prepared to ship important but limited humanitarian food aid to North Korea. In April 2012 North Korea conducted a long-range missile test and the food aid did not proceed.

In January 6, 2016 North Korea claimed to test a hydrogen bomb, which was a simulated 10 KT boosted nuclear device instead. On February 7, 2016 North Korea claimed to have put a satellite into orbit. A fifth nuclear test occurred on September 9, 2016 with an estimated 25 KT yield.

In 2017 North Korea test-launched two ICBMs and announced a further test of a hydrogen bomb.

What is clear is that North Korea has repeatedly sought outside help and once that has been achieved they have backed out of each peace agreement.

One aspect of this process that has changed was on June 12, 2018 in Singapore when Kim Jong Un met with President Donald Trump and his advisors who demanded a total dismantling, verification and removal of ALL nuclear weapons from North Korea, under threat of increased sanctions or military action.

What remains to be seen is whether this message has been effectively transmitted to the current regime in such a way that they live up to the agreement. The very lives of the people of North Korea, the entire Korean peninsula and the world hang in the balance.

There are those here in the USA and abroad that want North Korea to go back on their word or in some way violate the agreement so they can say, “Trump couldn’t make the deal stick.” I venture to say that as he has said in the past if he wasn’t sure about making the deal, he would have just walked away. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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6-11-2018

The Case for a T4 Coalition

The latest “news” reporting was about President Trump’s remarks to the G7 when he called them a Fools Trade coalition, then left the summit to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jung Un concerning denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.

It seems that our “allies” are only in it for the money! Their deep pockets are simply full of holes. Tariff’s on USA goods are what grease the wheels of their economy and at great expense to the American taxpayer. So think about it. America charges low tariffs while other nations charge considerably higher tariffs in return for US goods.

If that isn’t bad enough we have been the world police (often under the charter of the United Nations) and foot the bill. Who pays to transport US military and equipment to foreign soil? Even under the UN, US taxpayers?

What about our stabilizing forces on foreign soil? How much do we pay for US overseas bases and embassies? What does it cost to train and operate our military in other countries? Who foots the bill, US taxpayers?

What I propose is a global “Reset Button” like the one Obama and Hillary gave Russia, only one that works for America.

Since Germany no longer sees the USA as a reliable ally and the rest of the G7 could not get Trump to play in their sandbox (that we paid for) we should simply withdraw from the G7. Maintain the higher tariffs proposed by the president, but create our own coalition.

After the first ever summit with North Korea concludes the USA should create a Trump coalition and call it the “T”. In fact we could probably create allies with 3 nations who would like “free trade” with the United States right off the bat. We could begin with the T4 (Japan, South Korea, North Korea and the United States). Member states of the T4 would incur no tariffs between member states.

I bet that it wouldn’t take long for others to want in, say Israel, then China and Russia, and how many others? Free trade would benefit each other and boost the import and export of consumer goods, thereby helping the economies of each member state.

Without pulling any punches, America’s biggest issue would come from the American Congress, who seems to be all too happy letting the USA be sucker punched with outrageously high tariffs while charging peanuts in return. The congress is actively considering a bill to restrict the presidential power concerning tariffs. Couple that with the outspoken disunity of the Congresses lack of support for President Trump’s agenda as presented so clearly by John McCain (RINO – AZ) and his collogues in the Democrat Party it won’t take long.

Seriously, why is the USA the world’s piggy-bank or ATM with everyone having the same pin code, except the American taxpayers who foot the bill entirely without recourse? President Trump’s proposal on free trade would eliminate tariffs entirely between G7 member states and give everyone a level playing field. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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