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CMV: President Trump deserves credit for the apparent de-nuclearization of North Korea

I feel like I need to preface this by telling you how fully and completely I detest the current President of the United States.  I'm one of those people who actually voted for Hillary and was quite happy to do so, and if you want to talk about that decision, let's take it outside, lol.  Suffice it to say that I am, in no way whatsoever, a Trump supporter, and it really pains me to hold this view.  When I say "change my view", I'm really saying "please for the love of GOD change my view".

But honestly, I can't think of a lot of great reasons to think of this sudden 180 by Kim Jong Un as anything other than the result of the Trump administration's tough talk.  North Korea has, up until now, steadily increased in their aggression and technological progress towards a missile that could inflict serious harm on any country across the world, and the sudden change in attitude over the past month or so seems to contradict literally everything this country has been working towards for, what?  Decades?

What changed?  The "fire and fury" speech seems like the most obvious.  The tough rhetoric from Trump.  Nobody ever took the approach that he took, the approach to just say outright that we'll blow the fuck out of your country if you send a nuke at us.  I think North Korea is pretty well aware of how thoroughly the US could dismantle their country, but perhaps they were skeptical that it would actually happen?

There are, I suppose, two other explanations for this sudden shift:

1\) North Korea has always known that it really sucks as a military on the global scale and just wanted to demonstrate its ability to nuke everyone to get respect on the global stage.  Now that they've shown everyone that they can do that, they have respect, so now they're like "okay, point has been made, so we can back off now".  And perhaps Trump is getting the credit because he got to be the one to respond to North Korea's demonstrated ability to fling nukes all over the planet.

2\) North Korea is lying to all of us.  This is a more terrifying prospect, though I also wonder why they would bother with this "being nice" phase if they want to blow us all up in the end.

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>What changed? The "fire and fury" speech seems like the most obvious.

Nah. Their underground nuclear test site collapsed after their last test and it will take some time to rebuild it, so Kim, upon the advice of China, is taking this opportunity to play denuclearization checkers for awhile while they get some sanctions relief and possibly get an orange moron to withdraw American troops from South Korea.