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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashPo: Maybe Putin is behind Kim Jong Un's sudden turnaround.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kim-jong-un-is-suddenly-talking-about-peace-heres-why/2018/03/06/06df171e-217f-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html?utm_term=.b81dbdbc43a6
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WashPo: Maybe Putin is behind Kim Jong Un's sudden turnaround. (Original Post)
triron
Apr 2018
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still_one
(92,325 posts)1. I speculated about this the other day myself
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)2. Paywall
Exotica
(1,461 posts)3. Use Icognito mode in Chrome FTW
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)13. Thanks!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)6. You can read it if you open it in an incognito tab.
It's cheating, yes. And I did it a few times myself. But I broke down and paid for a subscription when I realized how often I linked to them and how much I looked forward to their post election stories.
orangecrush
(19,597 posts)12. Thanks!
Exotica
(1,461 posts)4. Way more likely it was that train ride to China. IMHO
Xi is now prezzie/dictator for life and I do believe is sick of Un's shit drawing a potential nuke or 10 from our fuckstick POTUS acd his neoconned-up foreign team.
moondust
(20,002 posts)5. Where did NK get its nuclear and missile technology?
Kablooie
(18,637 posts)7. I think it's from the collapse of his nuclear testing facility.
Which now is a potential danger to N Korea and China both.
I posted details a few days ago:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210547550
Javaman
(62,532 posts)10. I think we are being lead to be believe that...
if you read NK Kim's actual quote he states that he "northern" test area has collapsed.
that's the telling info. if there is a northern test area, there are others.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)8. Put it together
With Syria. Double wag the dog, Putin style
JI7
(89,260 posts)9. This is what i have been thinking for a long time. or that there is something in it for Trump
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)11. Kim Jong Un needs cash