[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #515: Lil Rocketman with the big hands

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Er is al geen oorlog meer geweest tussen de VS en NK sinds 1953 hoor.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:10 schreef Freak188 het volgende:
Het enige dat telt is het foto moment en die heeft trump te pakken. Inhoud van de deal maakt niks uit. Wat dat betreft zijn we er allemaal weer ingetrapt.

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Reporters crowded into a Singapore auditorium Tuesday, expecting President Trump to walk out and announce the results of his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Suddenly, two huge screens on either side of the empty podium came to life. Soaring music boomed over the speakers, and the reporters were bombarded with a montage portraying North Korea as some sort of paradise.

Golden sunrises, gleaming skylines and high-speed trains. Children skipping through Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang. North Korean flags fluttering between images of Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Lincoln Memorial.

In a split-screen shot, Kim Jong Un waved to an adoring crowd while President Trump stood beside him with his thumb in the air. The pair appeared over and over again, like running mates in a campaign video.

The film went on like this for more than four minutes, with brief interludes of missiles, soldiers and warships interrupting the pageantry. Some journalists, unable to understand the Korean-language narration, assumed they were watching one of Pyongyang's infamous propaganda films. “What country are we in?” asked a reporter from the filing center.

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AndrewBeatty twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 10:10:06 They are playing a propaganda video before Trump presser. Not kidding. What is happening??!! reageer retweet

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The reporters had many questions.

“Do you now see Kim Jong Un as an equal?” asked a Time magazine correspondent.

“In what way?” Trump asked.

“You just showed a video that showed you and Kim Jong Un on equal footing, and discussing the future of the country.”

The president may have misunderstood the question, as he referred in his answer to his closed-door talks and a few carefully negotiated photo ops with Kim — not the U.S.-made video that presented the totalitarian autocrat as a hero.

“If I have to say I'm sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that gets us to save 30 million lives — it could be more than that — I'm willing to sit on a stage, I'm willing to travel to Singapore, very proudly,” Trump said.

“Are you concerned the video you just showed could be used by Kim as propaganda, to show him as ...”

Trump cut the question off. “No, I'm not concerned at all. We can use that video for other countries.”

The president was more talkative when discussing how Kim had reacted to the video, which Trump had presumably played for him during a brief, private meeting hours earlier.

“We didn’t have a big screen like you have the luxury of having,” Trump said. “We didn't need it, because we had it on cassette, uh, an iPad.

“And they played it. About eight of their representatives were watching it, and I thought they were fascinated by it. I thought it was well done. I showed it to you because that's the future. I mean, that could very well be the future. And the other alternative is just not a very good alternative. It's just not good.”

International reviews of the video were decidedly mixed.

"Schlocky" — Vanity Fair.

"Odd." — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

"One observer dismissed it as 'a word salad topped with gratuitous appeasement of a monstrous regime,'" the South China Morning Post reported.

The Daily Mail noted that as the narrator described North Korea's glorious future of technology and international investment, the video showed stock footage of the Miami Beach shoreline, not far from a Trump-owned hotel. The Spectator called the whole sequence "real-estate politik" — which wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"The text reads like some godawful martial-arts movie trailer crossed with a corporate advertisement for an ambitious construction project," Freddy Gray wrote for the British newspaper. "But clearly, in some peculiar way, it works."

The president acknowledged that some of the film's imagery may seem far-fetched. North Korea is mired in poverty, internationally isolated, and has been mismanaged for decades by a family of dictators — Kim, his father and grandfather.

“That was done at the highest level of future development,” Trump told the reporters in Singapore, as if he had just offered Kim a multi-tiered vacation package. “I told him, you may not want this. You may want to do a much smaller version. ... You may not want that, with the trains and everything.”

He waved his hands. “You know, with super everything, to the top. It's going to be up to them."

And then, in his usual style, Trump was thinking out loud about the “great condos” that might one day be built on the “great beaches” of North Korea.

“I explained it,” he said. “You could have the best hotels in the world. Think of it from the real estate perspective.”

As the screens above Trump emphasized, he certainly had.