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    — 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 NEW: President Trump says the U.S. will reduce joint military exercises with South Korea

    Trump stated that he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un and that North Korea has always been ‘unthreatening and respectful’.

    Trump called previous U.S. military exercises ‘innapropriate and hostile’ to the People’s Republic of North Korea.

    @Middle_East_Spectator

    https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/35943

    Beyond the fact that this is just kinda hilarious, I post this because, I suspect this is just a thinly veiled way transfer of supplies from one US imperialist outpost (South Korea) to a more active zone.

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      Honestly, I am bewildered. This is absolutely awesome!

      I suspect this is just a thinly veiled way transfer of supplies from one US imperialist outpost (South Korea) to a more active zone.

      That seems very plausible, but if this goes through it is a proper material win for DPRK. What a time to be alive!

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        Oh it’s undeniably a good thing, I just felt it was worth saying. No amount of bandaid will be able to fix the fatal wound Iran has dealt to the Empire’s presence in West Asia.

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      While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!”

      I can’t help but wonder if he’s doing this out of pettiness because the president of Occupied Korea didn’t go along with everything he wanted. But the material analysis is probably the more accurate one and his petulant stuff is more for show in this case.

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        I think the pettiness is a bone for him to throw at the MAGA base. When the US capitulates to Iran’s demands, this will likely be one of the reasons the fascist cult in the US will use as a reason.

        “We could have won, but our allies abandoned us, therefore we need to put them under heel even more.”

        That’s the narrative I expect at least.

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      100% agree, I think the Kim Jong Un comments and general trolling is some deliberately inflammatory red meat for western media to latch on to so we don’t draw the correct conclusions.

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        It’s kinda like how zionists are learning their ideology is so toxic that the best thing you can do to sabotage political obstacles is to inflate Israel’s interactions on the global stage. This was attempted against Burkina Faso recently, however I don’t think it was very effective.

        I think either Trump himself or one of his handlers, know that if he speaks about North Korea, Libs will just thoughtlessly parrot that the DPRK is a dystopian wasteland. At a time where it’s becoming more impossible to maintain that image of the DPRK, the US ruling elite are using the spectacle of their political theater to obfuscate the truth as long as possible.

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          Agreed. I think we can know for sure by observing how the Demonrats and talking heads react to this and what they’ll fixate on. If we get the re-heated “Trump’s licherally friends with autocratic dictators” (the stalest of microwaved nachos; we’ve seen this deployed for similar purposes for 10 fucking years now) then that basically proves it.