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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 16:53:08 EDT clacke
   > Between 2012 and 2016 Kim carried out the biggest purge seen in North Korea since the days of his grandfather. South Korea’s Institute for National Security Strategy has reported the execution of 140 senior military officers and government officials. Another 200 have been removed or imprisoned.
   
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/king_of_pyongyang
   1. morph (morph@gs.morphtown.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 17:12:45 EDT morph

      in reply to

      @clacke So Trumpy is scared now to meet Rocketman?

      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 17:24:32 EDT clacke

         in reply to
         @morph My interpretation is that the chronological sequence is like this:
         
         1) Kim and Trump agree to meet, mostly thanks to China putting pressure on Kim. Why China is acting different now than in the last three decades, nobody but Xi and friends knows.
         2) Trump tours the country, patting himself on the back for how awesome he is to achieve progress with Kim. He is now invested in the meeting.
         3) Kim starts threatening to cancel the meeting, meaning that he is expecting concessions to stay on track and save Trump's face, as Trump has already taken credit for a meeting that didn't yet happen.
         4) Trump goes "you can't fire me, I quit!" to save face and not risk a Neville Chamberlain moment.
         1. morph (morph@gs.morphtown.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 17:40:50 EDT morph

            in reply to

            @clacke To be honest I myself would not be ready to meet one or another of them. They are failed personalities and should not be in the positions they are. Everyody knows but it seems to to be historical fact.

            1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 18:55:39 EDT clacke

               in reply to
               @morph
               
               > The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
               To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
               
               -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Chapter 28