A Warning on North Korea: Be Wary of Faux Friends
THE ISSUE: North Korea leader Kim Jong-un’s historic peace talks with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in.
North Korea cannot afford a war with the United States or our allies (“Historic handshake,” April 27).
So for the time being, it’s pretending to make nice with the United States and South Korea, deceiving them into believing that they have changed from brutal dictators to caring and passionate leaders.
North Korea, with backing from China, will eventually spread through South Korea like a cancer and then devour it.
It is a long-term plan from a communist country whose leaders have shown they detest democracy and have no respect for basic human rights.
How can you trust a leader who kills his own family, starves his people and threatens the world with nuclear missiles? Matthew Galcik Montauk
The historic meeting between North and South Korea, which resulted in the country’s two leaders vowing to end the Korean War, will no doubt be trivialized or ignored by the left-wing media.
The significance of this accomplishment, which has eluded the past 12 ad- ministrations over the past 65 years, cannot be overstated.
Yet, you can be assured that proper credit will not be given to President Trump. He certainly won’t be offered the ignominious Nobel Peace Prize. Jack Kaufman Long Beach
We should all smell a rat regarding North Korea’s recent peace concessions leading up to the face-to-face summit with Trump.
We need to remember that we are dealing with communists here. This is not the “peace on earth, goodwill toward men” culture.
This is an evil, murder- ous, godless dictatorship that always has something devious up its sleeve.
We have to ask: What are they planning to ask in return for all these goodwill concessions they’re making?
This is all eerily similar to the 1986 Reykjavik summit between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The good news is that I believe Trump already knows this. Eugene Dunn Medford
If anyone has ever deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s President Trump.
Under his administration, the Korean War could finally come to an end, after over 60 years. Peter Orsi Brooklyn
Has anyone considered the possibility that North Korea is the mouse that roared and is out of weapons?
What a great game Kim would be playing if he shot off all his bombs and is now negotiating with an empty hand, which we can’t see. Mark Zafrin Los Angeles, Calif.