Trump's blind spot on North Korea could sink a deal

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Trump has sold Kim Jong Un on peace and prosperity. But North Korea's record on human rights stands in the way.

ELIANA JOHNSON Experts insist that economic reform alone is not enough to effect change — it must be interrelated with national security and human rights, as the U.S. managed to do at the height of the Cold War. The Jackson-Vanik amendment to the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 cracked down on U.S. trade with the Soviet Union and its satellites in response to human rights abuses.

Kim is believed to have personally ordered the execution of his half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, who was assassinated in 2017 after two women attacked him with VX nerve agent in a Malaysian airport. North Korea is one of many countries that uses forced labor, though American companies do business in many of them by providing voluntary compliance reports to Customs and Border Protection enforcement officials indicating that they are not using forced labor in their supply chain or operations.

 

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What Trump doesn't understand is that KJU definition of wealth is very different from the West. Economic potential in NK would mean the distribution of wealth....leading to N Koreans having freedoms and placing demands on Kim...the last thing Kim wants is to relinquish power.

No. Korea doesn’t need “papa” Trump. He has China as father, provider and advisor..and nukes.

And Germany in 1942 had tremendous potential for becoming a better and more moral nation. Didn't mean we liked them in '42. NK does have potential, and it can be unleashed using the formula for wealth creation (yes, it's actually known).

I believe that Jong un will work w/Pres. Trump.He seems to be genuinely concern about his children’s future.He doesn’t want his son to inherit his troubles.He wants his children to be able to roam the World freely,something he’s not able to do.realDonaldTrump foxandfriends

Hope about helping the USA COME OUT OF DEBT?

Translated - I want to build a Trump Tower.

Carrot and stick.

I wonder if tRump asked for a front seat to Kim’s next execution by gunfire! I heard he likes to watch!

Meanwhile...in the war between India and Pakistan, Pakistan shot down 2 Indian planes. Has anyone told Trump?

Waaaaa

Trump hotels and labor camps everywhere!

Foreplay

Every time Trump and his clan speak I hear Banjo music, every single time.

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