Here comes the start of the consequences…

[Hanoi Summit] https://t.co/eD8fKTGYft

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 1, 2019

There goes the narrative.

“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.

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Austin Bay;

Donald Trump’s October 24, 1999 Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert is a historically illuminating flash forward to the most surprising, promising and history-altering opportunity since the Soviet Union collapsed: “denuclearizing” North Korea without the could-be belligerents waging a hideously destructive war that scars East Asia and seeds a global economic depression.

 

Yes, those are the stakes: millions of dead and trillions of debt.

 

In the interview, Russert says Trump once indicated if he were president he would attack North Korea preemptively in order to end its nuclear threat.

 

Despite Russert’s vapors and wailing, Trump’s grammatically-challenged beer and barbecue answer is a superb twofer. One: Trump answers Russert’s core question. Two: Trump accurately summarizes the American government’s spaghetti-spined responses to North Korea’s slow but insidious quest for nuclear weapons.

Morning news:   The Koreas said they hope the parties will be able to declare an official end to the war by the end of this year.

Things you’ll never see at the CBC…

South Korea’s Foreign Minister tells me in Seoul that “clearly credit goes to President Trump” for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table. “He’s been determined to come to grips with this from day one,” Kang Kyung-wha says.

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— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) April 26, 2018

I’m old enough to remember when global nuclear war was just a tweet away…

North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.

 

Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation.

And just like that, North Korea is no longer in the news.

Kim Jong Un, tear down this nuke: Kim Jong-un invites President Trump to talks and agrees to suspend missile tests
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More reaction: The statement tonight by South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong is so jaw-dropping in significance it has left the professional diplomatic apparatus stunned.