The Real Legacy of The Olympics - The Kim Trump Summit

When Trump and Kim meet, if only the Doctor were in the room with them... @moonriver365 https://t.co/6XSWHyxdt7

— Ken Frost (@ken_frost) March 9, 2018

For once, an Olympic Games have actually given rise to a legacy that actually might be worth something. Namely the forthcoming Kim Trump summit, brokered by Moon and emanating from the goodwill between North and South Korea generated by the recent Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Let us trust that some good will come of the meeting, pencilled in for May!

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Happy Homecoming For The Kims - Beware The Hubris Cocktail!

Official portrait of Kim Jong-un greeting the North Korean Olympic delegation, arm-in-arm with Kim Yong-nam and Kim Yo-jong. pic.twitter.com/EA2gGtjV3P

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) February 12, 2018

Little sister Kim and the Olympic delegation have returned home to a warm welcome from Big Brother Kim, confident in the knowledge that this is (thusfar) a job well done.

Not only did they have the mainstream media giving them front page coverage (there's no such thing as bad publicity), they received an added bonus of Pence acting as a badly behaved and ill mannered guest towards his ROK hosts. as such, it is hardly surprising that Kim issued a personal thank you to ROK for hosting the delegation (thus drawing further attention to Pence's truculent behaviour and ill mannered demeanour).

Needless to say this "thaw" will not last, at some stage Kim will test something that will start the war clock ticking again. However, in the very short term, Kim can be confident that he has outmanoeuvred and outplayed the USA.

Hubris of course is a very dangerous cocktail!

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Kim is Out of Cash

Two Chinese sources with connections to North Korea’s ruling elite told RFA’s Korean Service Wednesday that Kim—now in his seventh year of leading the North—has nearly exhausted the slush fund he inherited from his predecessor and no longer has enough money to govern the country.

— Strategic Sentinel (@StratSentinel) January 26, 2018

It would seem that Kim may well have run out of cash.

It is not surprising that he has run out of cash, as attempting to push for economic growth and increase military expenditure at the same time is simply not possible in an economy as weak and pathetic as North Korea. The Soviet Union was brought to its knees by trying to achieve those two goals.

That being the case that Kim has run out of cash, the sudden enthusiasm for the Olympics is doubtless geared to finding ways and means to raise more cash.

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