A fruitless summit

Letter June 14, 2018
Both Trump and Kim agreed to work together for the creation of a peaceful Korean Peninsula

KARACHI: Fortunately, the most awaited meeting between the president of the United States and supreme leader of the DPRK ended up peacefully but with no tangible results! Trump  and Kim shared joyful moments, laughed, ate lunch together and signed an agreement!

The two leaders agreed to establish new US-North Korea relations based on peace and harmony. North Koreans have always hated the United States. At least now we won’t see the two states threatening to launch a nuclear war against each other. Now Kim will focus more on economic revival of his failed state. He succeeded at bringing President of the United States to the negotiating table.

Both Trump and Kim agreed to work together for the creation of a peaceful Korean Peninsula. President Trump pledged to halt joint military exercises of the US with South Korea and also indicated that he may eventually work on bringing back 32,000 US soldiers from South Korea to the US and closing down the US military base in the country. Trump completely ignored North Korea’s human-rights violations and discussed nothing about that at the summit and did everything in favour of Kim Jong-un.

Ali Salman Andani

Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2018.

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