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About That Movie Trailer Donald Trump Gave Kim Jong Un

It was a strange clip depicting a brighter future for North Korea in the event of a nuclear deal. The problem is it’s not clear the North Koreans want that future.
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“A Story of Opportunity for North Korea,” the four-minute that Donald Trump showed Kim Jong Un when the two leaders met this week in Singapore, is a prime example of the new, quintessentially Trumpian ideas that the president to try and finally resolve the old challenge of denuclearizing North Korea. But there’s one main problem with it. (I’m setting aside the fact that Trump apparently kinda sorta threatened North Korea with war via iPad during their negotiations. The narrator of the trailer presents Kim with a stark choice: Trade in his nuclear weapons for a peace-and-prosperity deal with the U.S. or decline to do so, at which point ominous images evoking explosions flash across the screen.) If the video reflects the Trump administration’s core sales pitch to North Korea on why it should give up

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