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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBolton states the obvious...Trump's "big deal" in NK was about "a well-placed piece of real estate"
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@KingstonAReif
Bolton: The president kept saying [to Kim Jong Un] take what he called the big deal -- denuclearization, make a decision, give up the nuclear chemical and biological weapons, give up the ballistic missiles. https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/rep-debbie-dingell-on-what-michael-cohens-testimony-means-for-future-investigations-of-president-trump
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dalton99a
(81,677 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-north-korea-beaches-great-place-for-hotels-condos-2018-6
As a former developer, Trump appeared to hint at that real estate could be the key to North Korea's economic development as a country.
"As an example, they have great beaches," Trump said to reporters. "You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, 'Boy, look at that view. Wouldn't that make a great condo?'"
Trump added that North Korea could be a great location for hotels, too.
"You could have the best hotels in the world right there," Trump said. "Think of it from a real estate perspective. You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It's great."
dalton99a
(81,677 posts)North Korea does not allow foreign control, and it routinely violates commercial contracts and agreements with investors. Chinese and South Korean investors have been burned big time.
pandr32
(11,637 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Maybe he'll offer Kim one of the first $1 million condos, as he did Putin.
Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)And manage it for a small fee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)SMH
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Putin and trump cooked this scheme up to do this and this walk away was set up to then have putin get the deal agreed upon so trump could get his real estate deal with Kim, and trump then could claim since putin helped he would lift sanctions for him and Kim , and again get a commission from it for himself, and this has all been pre-planned by them. These people are really corrupt. Kim probably along with putin and trump ignore him giving up anything. Its all another pr stunt for putin and trump.
spanone
(135,921 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)"And in exchange for that, you get this well-placed piece of real estate as the president charges it from his business experience, that could have an extraordinary economic future."
This description from Bolton isn't even coherent. Was Trump proposing a real estate transaction in exchange for NK's denuclearization?!