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Darrell Castle talks about the Summit held in Singapore on June 12th between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea.
Transcription / Notes
NERVOUS IN NORWAY
Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, June 15, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the summit meeting held on June 12th between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea. The two leaders met in Singapore and issued a joint statement of their agreement. I will quote from the four points of the agreement as follows:
“The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S. – DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity”. This point certainly has to be considered a positive. New relations between the two countries have to be better than the old because worse than the old would be war, possibly nuclear war. In fact, war has technically existed between North and South Korea for the last 70 years, so new relations are a welcome relief.
“The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.” This is again very good news because the opposite of peace is war and that’s bad.
“Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” This one is a reference to the meeting held in April between the leaders of North and South Korea in which they pledged to work toward peace, etc. Once again, to reaffirm that agreement is fantastic news for obvious reasons.
“The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.” It’s about time this happened and hopefully it will bring closure to some of the families of the missing.
President Trump decided to relate to his adversary as an equal, which now seems like a good idea. He was criticized in the American press for recognizing Kim Jong Un as an equal by shaking his hand and sitting on the podium in equal status with him but what was he supposed to do, refuse his hand? If he was expected to refuse the man’s hand, and perhaps turn his back, then what would be the point of the summit?
A reporter from Time Magazine asked the President if he now considered Kim Jong Un his equal and the President responded, “If I have to say I’m sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that’s going to get us to save 30 million lives—maybe more than that—I’m willing to sit on that stage. I’m willing to travel to Singapore very proudly, very gladly.” Now that’s a pretty good answer and will make it harder for the media to marginalize the meeting by saying that Kim won by having his picture taken with President Trump.
President Trump obviously decided to approach this summit with a different attitude than did the Clinton and Obama administrations. Those administrations and those Presidents basically just said look here’s 10 billion dollars, now tell us you will use it to buy food and then just shut up until I’m out of office.
President Trump decided instead to establish a friendship with the man in order to accomplish something of lasting significance. Mr. Un apparently has a reputation for liking movies, so President Trump had a video made to show him what North Korea could actually be like in an atmosphere of peace. It was a pretty good video. I watched it and I enjoyed it, and apparently Mr. Kim enjoyed watching it as well. The two leaders walked together for a while with their hands on each others’ backs as two friends would. Mr. Trump showed him something from the back of his car and others joined them to look at whatever it was.
Later, the President said that he advised Mr. Un to look at it from a real estate standpoint. "We were standing on a beautiful beach and I told him that instead of exploding cannon shells to imagine cond...
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Darrell Castle talks about the Summit held in Singapore on June 12th between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea.
Transcription / Notes
NERVOUS IN NORWAY
Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, June 15, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the summit meeting held on June 12th between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea. The two leaders met in Singapore and issued a joint statement of their agreement. I will quote from the four points of the agreement as follows:
“The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S. – DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity”. This point certainly has to be considered a positive. New relations between the two countries have to be better than the old because worse than the old would be war, possibly nuclear war. In fact, war has technically existed between North and South Korea for the last 70 years, so new relations are a welcome relief.
“The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.” This is again very good news because the opposite of peace is war and that’s bad.
“Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” This one is a reference to the meeting held in April between the leaders of North and South Korea in which they pledged to work toward peace, etc. Once again, to reaffirm that agreement is fantastic news for obvious reasons.
“The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.” It’s about time this happened and hopefully it will bring closure to some of the families of the missing.
President Trump decided to relate to his adversary as an equal, which now seems like a good idea. He was criticized in the American press for recognizing Kim Jong Un as an equal by shaking his hand and sitting on the podium in equal status with him but what was he supposed to do, refuse his hand? If he was expected to refuse the man’s hand, and perhaps turn his back, then what would be the point of the summit?
A reporter from Time Magazine asked the President if he now considered Kim Jong Un his equal and the President responded, “If I have to say I’m sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that’s going to get us to save 30 million lives—maybe more than that—I’m willing to sit on that stage. I’m willing to travel to Singapore very proudly, very gladly.” Now that’s a pretty good answer and will make it harder for the media to marginalize the meeting by saying that Kim won by having his picture taken with President Trump.
President Trump obviously decided to approach this summit with a different attitude than did the Clinton and Obama administrations. Those administrations and those Presidents basically just said look here’s 10 billion dollars, now tell us you will use it to buy food and then just shut up until I’m out of office.
President Trump decided instead to establish a friendship with the man in order to accomplish something of lasting significance. Mr. Un apparently has a reputation for liking movies, so President Trump had a video made to show him what North Korea could actually be like in an atmosphere of peace. It was a pretty good video. I watched it and I enjoyed it, and apparently Mr. Kim enjoyed watching it as well. The two leaders walked together for a while with their hands on each others’ backs as two friends would. Mr. Trump showed him something from the back of his car and others joined them to look at whatever it was.
Later, the President said that he advised Mr. Un to look at it from a real estate standpoint. "We were standing on a beautiful beach and I told him that instead of exploding cannon shells to imagine cond...