TRUMP-KIM MEETING ON TRACK?

By DELL ARTHUR

           

It seems “Little Rocket Man”, North Korea’s dictator, may have some second thoughts meeting with United States President Donald J. Trump for a face to face confab this coming June 12, 2018 at Singapore. Things appeared to be going well prior to Kim Jung Un’s surprise meeting with General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jing a couple of weeks ago. Following the meeting Kim appeared to switch attitude and fall back on some hard line rhetoric. This meeting, it may be noted, wasn’t appreciated by President Trump.

Exactly what role China’s Communist leader plays in the proposed meeting between President Trump and Kim isn’t really any surprise. China pulls the control strings regarding anything North Korea does. This goes all the way back to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950.

It appears what China is really concerned about is the infusion of a successful economic program, much like World War II’s “Marshal Program,” that would bring North Korea into the 21^st century and prosperity it has never known. What Trump envisions is the North would prosper much like it’s counterpart in the south. That would be the doom of communism in the North and free the people to make their own decisions regarding their hope for a better life. But it seems Kim is more concerned about his own neck if he loses his control over the people.

Following the end of World War II, China’s communist party took over the country. It and wasn’t easy. In order to instill their control mass murder was committed to opponents and strict rule of order was adopted. Anyone who didn’t comply was thrown into “education camps,” and reformed or simply eliminated.

During the Second World War when the Japanese invaded Manchuria and into China proper, the nation’s leader was General Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Party. He was a fearless leader and enlisted the aid of American mercenaries including the famed “Flying Tigers” prior to the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan on December 7, 1941. But with the invasion of the Japanese other leaders also emerged. One of these was Mao Zedong, head of the Communist Party. Originally he and Chiang cooperated in fighting the invaders but following the end of the war Chiang was driven from the mainland and, with his government, moved to Taiwan where they continue to live as free Chinese to the present time.

But that wasn’t enough for Communist China. They continued to completely revamp their nation according to Mao, who published his “little red book,” which transformed the people’s entire concept of living and government into one of the most brutal episodes in China’s history. Following Mao’s death, some minor changes took place and finally evolved into what the country is today.

Where does North Korea play into all of this?

With the outbreak of war between the north and south in 1950, China believed all of Korea would fall into communist hands. With that all of Asia would be susceptible to China’s power—especially Japan. The horror of the Japanese invasion of China continues to be fresh in their memory. With Korea as a buffer zone China would continue its control in safety. But then the United Nations got involved and sent troops (about 90 per cent American) to combat the invasion. General Douglas Macarthur headed the U.N. forces and began to drive the North Koreans back to the north. All was going well until November 25, 1950 when the Chinese forces entered the conflict. The battle continued for three more years before a truce was reached but the war it has never ended.

Since that time to the present North Korea has continued to rattle its swords (now nuclear devices and rockets) and threaten their neighbors in the South. Since 1953 the United States has kept troops in South Korea with the expectation of further escalation of the North and a possible outbreak of military action. But it has only been recently when Kim decided to fire rockets across the skis of Japan and explode nuclear bombs that he gained the attention of the United States.

During all these years the people of North Korea have suffered. There is little agriculture to feed their people, the military controls all of their activity, there is little electricity or manufacturing and most of all there is no freedom! Economically North Korea is on its last legs and in no position to assert aggression unless Kim wants to commit suicide!

And this has now reached the most vulnerable time for North Korea. They have a simple choice; reform or die.

This is what President Trump sees. As a no nonsense guy he prefers prosperity to failure. If North Korea continues on its path of destruction then Trump is willing to help it along if need be. But if Kim wants to save his people and conform to the rule of decency, that is all the better. Yet with the interference of China things can go haywire in a hurry and Trump knows it. So now is the time of hard ball. Remember, it was Kim who wanted the upcoming meeting but like President Trump says, “Maybe it will happen (the meeting) and maybe it won’t. We will wait and see.”

Trump’s attitude is baffling to North Korea and China. They are still going by the old play book and in doing so is a huge mistake on their part. The President is a master at negotiating and his insight to problems is uncanny. He can see, or smell a deal a mile away and by the time he meets with whom he is negotiating with you can bet he is holding the winning cards in his hand!

With China injecting themselves into the negotiations this may also play into Trump’s hands. No doubt the Chinese are alarmed about what has happened as North Korea’s releasing three American prisoners, saying North Korea is willing to denuclearize and close their nuclear test sites and continue to meet with South Korea’s president Moon Joe-in to work out mutual problems can’t help but make them nervous. Perhaps these are some of the things Xi Jing and Kim chatted about. But if Kim has half a brain he might want to consider his position in relation to President Trump. President Trump is no Obama and isn’t going to give away the farm!

So, if Kim decides not to continue meeting with Trump he is exposing himself to far more danger than he can possibly imagine. 

STORMY TIMES FOR TRUMP

By DELL ARTHUR

            It seems times are a bit “Stormy” for the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The media it seems is obsessed with the latest appearances of Stormy Daniels, on numerous outlets as Saturday Night Live and every other “news” outlet available. All this shows that with the help with so-called legitimate news channels any aging porn star can still hustle a few bucks merely by making accusations that, for the most part, doesn’t interest anyone, against the most powerful man in the free world.

            But what the heck; why concentrate on such mundane topics as the President’s upcoming meeting with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jung-un, the soaring economy, the record-breaking decline of employment or the southern border wall. These are just a few of the recorded 81 success pieces of legislation Trump is responsible for during his first year in office and there is more to come.

            Yet there is little or no mention of any of this on the nightly news. So called journalists are too busy jumping on television questioning the alleged one-night affair between Stormy and Trump. They want to know all about the $130,000 payment made to the aging hooker by attorney Michael Cohen the President’s so-called fixer.  When did Trump know about the payment? When was the payment made? Was the money part of any campaign fund? And bla, bla, bla!

If Cohen is a “fixer” where does that put every other person practicing law? Aren’t they also “fixers”? And if they are not then what are people paying them for?

It is standard practice for anyone making huge amounts of money to enter a non-disclosure agreement with anyone they deem a possible problem. There are a lot of folks like “Stormy” who make it a career to sell their bodies for profit. In this case she agreed to keep her mouth shut about any alleged affair she and Trump may have participated in. In addition to this she has changed her story a few times to agree with her allegations. Originally she said, on the record, that she did not have any sexual contact with Trump. But greed has a nasty way of surfacing whenever green bucks are involved. One thing for sure; the money paid to her wasn’t delivered in cash in the middle of the night in an unmarked airplane!

None of this however should be considered good behavior. If such activity did take place then the blame should be on Trump. He should have known that being party to such a disgusting activity could come home to bite him then he should never have been a party to it. But all of this took place over 10 years ago and a lot of people change their entire lives in such a period. Remorse of such behavior isn’t uncommon. And much credit to those who do seek redemption for their actions.

In addition to this is the hypocritical coverage. Those sanctimonious liberals who just a short time ago said that Bill Clinton’s detestable affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office was merely “sex” and a “personal affair”, are the ones now shouting about the immoral practice of Trump. They seem to forget that the accusations made against the President occurred BEFORE he ever ran for office or was elected to the presidency! If Trump did participate in such a sordid affair then that is something he has to work out with his own conscience. And listening to him now and viewing his own spiritual acceptance it seems he has come to terms with what is right.

But none of this will satisfy his enemies. Like the Pharisees they are too busy flaunting their pure self rightness.

And to top all of this off is Special Investigator Robert Mueller’s conduct and trying to use “Stormy” Daniels allegations in trying to trap the President. What does anything Trump may have been involved in regarding chasing girls years ago has anything to do with Russian collusion is a mystery.

None of this has anything to do with truth or justice. Trump’s personal activity, as it relates to years past, is frankly nobody’s business. That is not to say that such behavior is acceptable. On the contrary we all would like to see a president who can be looked up to for their moral character. Reviewing our history however brings back the image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and many other predecessors of the White House who also failed to come up to the test of good moral behavior.

Looking at all of this from the outside it becomes glaringly visible that none of this has anything to do with good moral behavior. Rather it is nothing but a tool to destroy Trump. The people who are willing to use any means to bring him down will use any excuse to accomplish their goal. Their hatred for this “outsider” who had the temerity to take on the establishment and actually win needs to be eliminated they cite. Only professional politicians are capable for thinking for the American people and only they can really run the government! And so they have and look at where it brought us. The only thing those people managed to do is protect their own skins and suck off the public nipple until cushy retirement. Then they become lobbyists.

It’s refreshing to have an “outsider” like President Donald Trump at the helm. It’s refreshing to have someone who actually knows how to run a successful business take charge and put Americans back to work. It’s refreshing to have a president who actually cares about the safety of the people of the United States and willing to put up a wall to protect us. It’s refreshing to have someone in the White House who truly loves our country and is willing to put up with all the lies, deceits and back stabbing that seems to go along with the “professional” lawmakers. The reality is these people aren’t out to just impeach Trump they want to destroy him, his family and anyone else associated with him! This is all out war and they are dug in.

President Trump may not be the ideal hero of the left but one thing for sure, he’s the best we have seen come down the road in our lifetime!

           

BIG MEETING WITH NORTH KOREA MAY BRING END OF OFFICIAL WAR

By DELL ARTHUR

            It is only going to be a few weeks from now before President Trump meet with “Little Rocket Man.” This historical first is making a lot of folks uneasy—especially across the isles of both the Upper House and the Congress. Some fear that Trump will make some extraordinary gaff and Kim Jong-un, who is known within his realm as the First Chairman of the Communist North, will hop all over the opportunity and make hay of it. If anyone believes this to be true then they need to go back reading comic books.

            If anyone will be prepared for this meeting it will be President Donald Trump. He is noted for never going into any negotiation without being fully briefed and holding all the winning cards in hand. Trump is no fool in spite what Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi think. He recognizes the past history of North Korea’s blatant lies and manipulation of the western powers. He also knows that every President following the truce with North Korea has failed in dealing with un’s father Kim Jong-el, also known as “Eternal Chairman of the National Defense Commission,” or “Beloved Leader.” These failures have resulted in North Korea becoming a nuclear bomb maker and threatening all its neighbors including Japan and the United States itself. The only problem “little rocket man” is confronted with is delivery.

            And it is the question of delivery of a nuclear device President Trump is concerned about. He has made it plain that if North Korea was to launch such a device North Korea would become the biggest hole in the world! So, using true statesmanship he has adroitly pushed Kim into a position of comply or else—and by else Trump means a renewal of the war between the two Korea’s. That stopped as a result of an armistice that was signed July 27, 1953 calling for a cease fire to end to the conflict. The only thing that really happened was the shooting ended.

            Since that time North Korea, with the help of China and Russia, continues unabated to enslave the North Korean people while they carry on to build up their military and weapons. Where was the United States while all this was going on all these years since the armistice? Apparently sucking their thumbs!

            This all happened because Democrat President Harry Truman wouldn’t take the advice of Five Star General Douglas Macarthur. After North Korea invaded what is now known as South Korea June 1950, the surprise nearly drove American forces into the sea. General Macarthur, who was given leadership of the United Nation Forces that were quickly assembled, began the arduous march to reclaim the lost ground. And battle they did! Building up strength and through heroic courage of the American forces who fought for every inch of ground, the communists were slowly pushed back. Then on September 15, 1950, Macarthur pulled off one of the most brilliant military surprise strikes of the war by an amphibious landing of Marines on the west coast of Korea at Inchon. Some 75,000 American fighters landed on the beaches and quickly overtook the enemy army. This maneuver resulted to cut off and stranding North Korean troops in the south and liberating Seoul.

            But Macarthur wasn’t done. He wanted to continue the battle all the way up to Korea’s northern border with China but rather than back his plan Truman fired him! And so the war continued. Following this the war seemed to be coming to an end but then the Chinese got into the battle saving the North Korean communists. And then Russia entered the conflict supplying the Chinese with Mig fighters and pilots to fly them. All this continued until a “truce” was signed.

            Since that time North Korea has continued to rattle their swards and demanding assistance in the form of agriculture goods, money (lots and lots of it), and concessions that most reasonable people would think ludicrous. But leave it to American politicians. Rather than confront the Communists we gave in to them for fear of starting a war with China. As time went by North Korea became more entrenched and more powerful to the determent of her neighbors.

            This unhappy episode has continued to the present when a new sheriff came on the scene—Donald Trump!

            But now everything is in play. The old way of doing business has come to an end and we now have someone in charge who isn’t going to give away the farm. Trump has made it plain that if North Korea tries to pull off the same old game he is willing to walk away from any deal with them. Again the liberals bite their nails and whine that this isn’t the way to handle tyrants as Kim. But in reflection it seems that the President’s plan is working well—too well it seems for his opponents who are continuing to scream for his impeachment. It appears that those folks who are continuing to be obstructionists are more in favor of hating Trump than loving America.

            All this seems to not bother the President. He is now considering where the upcoming talks with Kim will take place. He seems to favor the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea but nothing has yet been decided. Wherever the meeting will take place you can bet your bottom dollar that Trump will walk away with exactly what he wants in favor of the United States.

            Remember the surprise General Macarthur came up with when he invaded Inchon? It’s the belief by many that President Trump can come up with a similar plan and you know what happened when the Marines hit the beaches!