{"id":29945,"date":"2018-05-24T20:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29945"},"modified":"2018-05-24T20:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:42:54","slug":"no-peace-prize-for-potus-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29945","title":{"rendered":"No Peace Prize for POTUS this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, there goes the Nobel Peace Prize for Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n

Some folks had been beating the Peace Prize drum for the president on the basis of a proposed summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Then the North Korean despot began talking negatively about Donald Trump, the United States, South Korea … you name it.<\/p>\n

Now the summit is a goner. It won’t happen as planned on June 12 in Singapore. Will it be revived? Who knows?<\/p>\n

I was one who had some hope that it could produce a breakthrough in U.S.-North Korea relations. It won’t.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the president’s announcement that the summit had been canceled was his return to the tough-guy rhetoric that mentions the immense power of the U.S. nuclear weaponry. As CNN<\/a> reported: And he renewed his boasts of America’s nuclear weapons, which he called “so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Then he added this in a statement from the Roosevelt Room in the White House: “Our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world — that has been greatly enhanced recently, as we all know — is ready as necessary.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It makes me respond: Duh!<\/em><\/p>\n

The entire world knows this already, Mr. President. Including Kim Jong Un. There was some thought expressed that Trump’s in-your-face rhetoric about the size of his nuclear arsenal brought about the prospects of the summit in the first place.<\/p>\n

I hope we’re not headed back to Square One with Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

Today, though, was a serious setback in the quest for peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n

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