If Chairman Kim of North Korea Sees This…

After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019

After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!

— Buzz Windrip (@PrezBuzzWindrip) June 28, 2019

Given our recent saber-rattling with Iran, my appetite for confrontation with North Korea is extremely low. It wasn’t too long ago when Trump screamed fire and fury and bragged about the size of his nuclear button. But tweeting at Chairman Kim to meet at the DMZ shows weakness.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 28, 2019

I remember a time when America was so respected around the world that it would be North Korea begging for a chance to even have just a telephone call with the President of the United States. Instead seeing Trump groveling and begging to meet over Twitter is humiliating for us.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 28, 2019

How much has our stature as a nation fallen to have a President who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College with Russian help to then beg for a meeting with one of the most brutal dictators in history by tweeting to say hello and shake hands like a Justin Bieber fan.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

Don’t forget that North Korea falsely accused American citizen Otto Warmbier of stealing a propaganda poster. Just as he was about to leave, they arrested him at the airport, psychologically tortured him, and returned him to the United States in a persistent vegetative state.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

But the regime’s worst crimes are against its own people who are living in a worse dystopia than any Orwellian novel. Children are taught to inform on their parents. Up to 3.5 million North Koreans starved to death in the 1990s. It’s hell on Earth over there.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

Chairman Kim Jong Un clings to power not through respect but through sheer terror. He executes his generals with anti-aircraft guns when they fall asleep during a speech. He sends his citizens to death camps for sneezing the wrong way or even for just nothing at all.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

So it’s beyond a joke that Trump tries to woo Chairman Kim with promises of economic development and even makes cheap videos of Trump-style hotels on North Korean beaches. Kim isn’t interested in making his country rich. He only wants to selfishly maintain control through fear.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

Forcibly removing Kim Jong Un from power would require a total war that could easily leave East Asia in ashes and perhaps even ignite World War 3. But leaving him in power is also unacceptable—creating misery for millions of people. Focus on solving that one, Mr. President.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 29, 2019

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