It's funny when it's true sometimes.
Niceeeeeeee
I'm kind of sick of the "North Korea would have to be stupid to give up their nukes, that's the only thing keeping them from getting Saddam'd or Gaddafi'd!" argument.
North Korea only successfully tested a nuke in 2006. They survived without being invaded for over 50 years since the Korean War without nukes, because their deterrent was that they could kill hundreds of thousands of people in Seoul with conventional weapons (and chemical/biological if they wanted) in any invasion scenario.
Nukes were never necessary for their survival, and this complete retconning of history is braindead.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-n...-idUSKBN1I10OD
Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday.
“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace,” Moon told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a presidential Blue House official who briefed media.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday pledged to end hostilities between the two countries and work towards the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
Trump is preparing for his own summit with Kim, which he said would take place in the next three to four weeks.
That upcoming meeting was the main subject of a private walk and chat that Kim and Moon had during their meeting at the border, the official said.
In January, Moon said Trump “deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks. It could be a resulting work of the U.S.-led sanctions and pressure”.
Moon’s Nobel Prize comment came in response to a congratulatory message from Lee Hee-ho, the widow of late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, in which she said Moon deserved to win the prize in recognition of his efforts, the Blue House official said.
I mean they gave Obama one before he even took office.
It's a useless accolade.
at least he kind of sort of did something, hope and change hadn't even taken office yet lol
I had hoped and changed already Day.
only hope here
good
useless is better than much of what that committee has done; Kissinger and Tho winning in 1973 for a war that was not over and a war both had expanded multiple times, the terrorist Yasser Arafat winning for negotiations with Israel that, spoiler alert, didn't bring peace to Palestine, Aristide Briand for drafting the treaties that would divide Eastern Europe post-World War 1- treaties that left the borders of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland unfixed and "open to future arbitration' which as it turns out were borders one should not have left open to the arbitration of failed art students, and in most recent memory President Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar not only remaining silent on the Rohingya genocide but actively shielding her military from criticisms of ethnic cleansing.
and not peace prizers but giving medicine to the inventor of the frontal lobotomy and chemistry to the guy who invented chlorine gas and oversaw its first ever deployment on the Western Front were also just mwah
tho nothing may be more deplorable than giving literature to Bob Dylan
Isn't the Nobel prize for peace given by the filthy Norwegians instead of the sweetie Swedes?
Speaking as a filthy Norwegian, yes it is, I apologize for the travesty my country has turned the nobel peace prize into. And they get ridiculed on a regular basis. don't even get me started on the latest nominations for seats on the committee. it turned into a political shitfest when a "retired" populist from a shitty "tea party" equivalent thought he deserved a spot (it's supposed to be non-political, but if you believe that, I have a bridge i want to sell you."
On a more relevant note, I can not help but think that moons statement is just stroking Trumps ego to make him to what he wants.