GoldenRod
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Donald Trump May Not Actually Know Who’s Running North Korea
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-north-korea-leader_us_58f5a76ee4b0b9e9848df8d1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
President Donald Trump has indicated that two of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, were “outplayed” by “this gentleman” in North Korea.
In an interview scheduled to air on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, Trump told Ainsley Earhardt:
“They’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time. You read Clinton’s book, he said, ‘Oh, we made such a great peace deal,’ and it was a joke.
You look at different things over the years with President Obama. Everybody has been outplayed, they’ve all been outplayed by this gentleman and we’ll see what happens. But I just don’t telegraph my moves.”
However, “this gentleman” ? presumably current dictator Kim Jong Un ? has only been running North Korea since the 2011 death of his father, Kim Jong Il, who ran the country since 1994. Kim Il Sung ? the current leader’s grandfather ? ruled from the nation’s founding in 1948 until his death in 1994, during the first term of the Clinton presidency.
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Yes, Clinton got outplayed by someone who was from 8-16 years old, and 10 -18 years from being in power... 
I don't care if he "meant" N. Korea in general, and Kim Jong Il as well as Un. What he SAID is that he thinks Kim Jong Un has been in power for decades. He's broadcasting to the entire world that he doesn't even have a basic understanding of world politics.
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Hofstra26
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Re: Donald Trump May Not Actually Know Who’s Running North Korea
Seriously though, he REALLY shouldn't be allowed to speak. He's an unintelligent, misinformed moron of EPIC proportions and every time he opens his stupid mouth absolute garbage dribbles out of it. Such a fool.
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GoldenRod
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Re: Donald Trump May Not Actually Know Who’s Running North Korea
He apparently doesn't know where it is, either....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html
WASHINGTON — As worries deepened last week about whether North Korea would conduct a missile test, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal and give President Trump more options in responding to the North’s provocative behavior.
The problem was, the carrier, the Carl Vinson, and the four other warships in its strike force were at that very moment sailing in the opposite direction, to take part in joint exercises with the Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula.
White House officials said on Tuesday they were relying on guidance from the Defense Department. Officials there described a glitch-ridden sequence of events, from a premature announcement of the deployment by the military’s Pacific Command to an erroneous explanation by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — all of which perpetuated the false narrative that an American armada was racing toward the waters off North Korea.
By the time the White House was asked about the Carl Vinson on April 11, its imminent arrival had been emblazoned on front pages across East Asia, fanning fears that Mr. Trump was considering a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea. It was portrayed as further evidence of the president’s muscular style two days after he ordered a missile strike on Syria while he and President Xi Jinping of China were finishing dessert during a meeting in Florida.
The saga of the wayward carrier might never have come to light, had the Navy not posted a photograph on Monday of the Carl Vinson sailing through the Sunda Strait, which separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The picture was taken on Saturday, four days after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, described its mission in the Sea of Japan.
The Carl Vinson is now on a northerly course for the Korean Peninsula and is expected to arrive in the region sometime next week, Defense Department officials said. The White House declined to comment on the misunderstanding, referring all questions to the Pentagon. “Sean discussed it once when asked, and it was all about process,” said a spokesman, Michael Short.
Privately, however, other officials expressed bewilderment that the Pentagon did not correct its timeline, particularly given the tensions surging in the region and the fact that Mr. Spicer, as well as the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, were publicly answering questions about it.
“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier,” President Donald Trump told Fox on April 12. “We have the best military people on Earth. And I will say this: He is doing the wrong thing,” Trump added, referring to Kim Jong Un.
I don't think he outright lied about moving in towards NK. I think he missed another briefing where they said what was going on, and/or he forgot, and he was just spouting out what he "wanted" to happen....
He's going to start an unintended conflict with that stupid rambling mouth/thumbs of his....
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