The most historic meeting between two adversaries since the fall of the Soviet Union just happened in Singapore. President Trump and Kim Jong-un have left Singapore after a meeting that was anticipated for 65 years. Glenn Beck reacts to the news coverage.
00:11:11.360I actually think, because of the time, who's in office, how this is playing out, I actually think that if it works out that we denuclearize.
00:11:27.180I think Dennis Rodman deserves some credit.
00:14:46.140And he is, that's more important to him than anything.
00:14:50.280Now, I'm not saying that what's not, what won't happen is that he will continue to be the leader of North Korea for a long time.
00:15:01.700What has to happen is he has to let his guard down.
00:15:06.600He has to open the walls of his country.
00:15:09.540And then, just like the Soviet Union, it will collapse from within.
00:15:15.620You can't have these two regimes open.
00:15:19.840You cannot have people coming in from North Korea into South, uh, from South Korea going into North Korea and expect everything to be okay.
00:15:29.620The people of South Korea will be affected by the North in a very, uh, hostile way.
00:15:37.180In some ways, they'll see what's happening to their family members.
00:15:40.480And the people of South Korea will see the wealth and the access of their brothers and sisters and families, and they will want part of it.
00:18:31.660Let's play a little bit of this video just so you hear just a little bit of what Donald Trump had made for the introduction of him and Kim Jong-un.
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00:19:04.400History may appear to repeat itself for generations.
00:20:13.200So, Michael, we've been talking the last half hour.
00:20:16.400I don't know if you've had a chance to listen.
00:20:18.340But we have been kind of dancing around the idea that the game that I think Donald Trump is playing is he is trying to appeal to Kim Jong-un's ego.
00:20:35.320And I think Dennis Rodman kind of stumbled on it without really knowing.
00:20:40.920Kim is like, as Dennis said, like a child in some ways.
00:21:11.320And, in fact, I think what Donald Trump is doing is exactly what North Korea lays out as their strategy in their literature, which is you go after someone with empty threats.
00:21:22.380Well, not with empty threats, but strong threats.
00:21:24.300And at the same time, you leave them one exit in order to get them to do what they want.
00:21:29.000And the example they use, they say things like, North Korea is offended.
00:22:04.700Because if as I read this, I was I was hoping and I still am hoping that what's happening is he'll open the doors enough.
00:22:18.620Gorbachev did it intentionally, but he'll open the doors enough and it will rot it quickly because of the infection of freedom.
00:22:26.880It will rot it from the inside and he'll collapse.
00:22:29.900Well, Gorbachev didn't do it completely intentionally in this sense.
00:22:35.540There's a phenomenal book called Revolution 1989, which I recommend to everyone, which talks about how after Poland had their elections, country after country in the Soviet Union, in the Soviet bloc, excuse me, started to liberalize and governments start to fall.
00:22:50.440And Ceausescu of Romania and East Germany were calling Gorbachev saying, you've got to send in the tanks.
00:22:58.460And as a result of this, the domino, this is the actual domino theory.
00:23:02.260That's what brought down the Soviet empire.
00:23:03.960So at a certain point, when you put your hand, you take your hand off the wheel, events have a momentum of their own doing.
00:23:12.340No matter how bright people think Kim Jong-un is, and it's kind of baffling to me how so many people in the corporate press want to make him out to be the biggest genius of all time, if only to make President Trump look stupid by comparison.
00:23:23.620No matter how bright you are, there's a certain point where you don't realize what's going to happen to you.
00:23:29.740And the other thing is, Kim Jong-un didn't earn his position.
00:23:37.320So if there is this kind of paternalism on behalf of President Trump saying, look, kid, you've got to do the right thing, especially in a country like North Korea, like much of Asia, which is so based on respecting and venerating those who are older.
00:23:50.900However, this could be an absolutely wonderful technique President Trump is doing behind the scenes and publicly praising him.
00:23:57.060But, you know, listen, if someone has hostages and you want to say nice things about him, fine by me.
00:24:04.820Michael, I was thinking of you as all this was breaking last night of how bizarre this must look to the North Korean people, you know, who they got, you know, a half century of saying that we're so evil and we're going to come attack them at any moment.
00:24:19.520And then all of a sudden there they are smiling and shaking hands with Kim Jong-un and President Trump.
00:24:26.500Is that just one of those things where they see Kim Jong-un as the ultimate authority?
00:24:32.120Do they see this as a victory on their side?
00:24:35.280How do the North Korean people see this?
00:24:37.940I mean, it's not going to be hard for them to spin it back home.
00:24:42.320As, look, the American president is praising Kim Jong-un, saying we have a great relationship, saying how, you know, wonderful he is, how well we work together.
00:24:51.420And this was Kim Jong-un bending Donald Trump to his will and so on and so forth and guaranteeing, you know, protection and that they wouldn't interfere with the country.
00:25:01.520You know, this is what we've been waiting for for 70 years.
00:25:04.760The U.S. interiorists, as we're referred to, have been trying to conquer Korea since the 1860s when we sent USS General Sherman there.
00:25:12.700And now, finally, Kim Jong-un has achieved peace.
00:25:15.760And their slogan they always use is, we are not afraid of war, but we are prepared for war.
00:25:21.760And Applebaum runs in the Washington Post.
00:25:26.000For Kim Jong-un, the moment is this moment is vindication.
00:25:29.220The wisdom of his nuclear policy has been confirmed.
00:25:31.700His tiny, poor, often hungry country, where hundreds of thousands have perished in concentration camps that little that differ little from those built by Stalin, has been treated as the equal of the United States of America.
00:25:42.480If Kim hadn't continued the missile program, if he hadn't enhanced his missile delivery capability, President Trump would not be there.
00:25:49.000Anne Applebaum is an amazing woman who wrote the book Gulag, A History, which just traces a gulag.
00:26:13.720It's not just a dictatorial, which is bad enough.
00:26:16.400I think the idea that Kim Jong-un needs validation, certainly in his own country, is false.
00:26:24.840If he gets validation on the world stage, at a certain point, you have to respect someone with nukes.
00:26:30.020I don't mean respect in the sense of, oh, you're such a person that I admire, but you have to acknowledge their strength and that this has to be dealt with.
00:26:37.900So I think she has a point that, but for the nukes, this wouldn't be an issue necessarily for President Trump.
00:26:42.700At the same time, it seems so clear that this worried him at a human rights level.
00:26:48.940I mean, that's so much of what he focused on.
00:26:51.680And I mean, this is something that's clearly been a part of the summit.
00:26:56.000And that's my, and I know you guys and the listeners, that's the big hope here of, you know, freeing the people of North Korea.
00:27:02.480Everybody says that anybody could have done what happened last night.
00:27:09.020For instance, you know, they're saying Barack Obama would have done this.
00:27:15.920I was on Martha McCallum, and they said Barack Obama should get credit, and people took screen caps of the faces I was making.
00:27:23.020There's a movie in the early 60s, I believe, which some guys, you guys might remember, called Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,
00:27:29.760with Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, and Joan Crawford says to her,
00:27:34.480Jane, you wouldn't be so mean to me if I wasn't in this wheelchair.
00:27:37.200And she turns to her and goes, but you are, Blanche, you are in the chair.
00:27:40.700So this idea that anyone could have had this happen, well, it didn't, did it?
00:27:45.100You know, so, I mean, the idea that President Hillary or President Jeb would be there in Singapore, beggars belief to me.
00:27:53.180I mean, why hasn't this happened before?
00:27:54.620Because, Michael, the idea is that, theoretically, a U.S. president could have said,
00:27:59.620I want to fly to Singapore and meet with Kim Jong-un, and probably Kim Jong-un comes.
00:28:03.620But they didn't do it because they weren't able to do whatever Trump does here.
00:28:09.660Like, he obviously has some motivation, some ability to look past these sort of traditional things that stopped all of these conversations in the past.
00:28:19.960And it's yet to be determined whether this is going to work out as a good thing or a bad thing.
00:28:24.120But I don't think any other president would have tried this.
00:28:27.260They could have tried it, but I don't think they would have tried it.
00:28:29.360I don't know if they could have read Kim Jong-un as well as Donald Trump reads Kim Jong-un.
00:29:06.740And it would have been the first time that I think Donald Trump or any president would have been right to shut down all the other advisors, you know, in the end.
00:29:18.060Because I think he does see whether he sees it in himself or not.
00:29:30.720He's the proverbial bull in a China shop.
00:29:32.760And at the same time, sometimes that China needs smashing, no pun intended.
00:29:37.800If you look at other politicians who have gone through the ranks and have paid their dues, they're going to be beholden to the establishment and to the party and so on and so forth.
00:29:47.220Understandably, with Trump, he's like, yeah, I'm going to do what I want.
00:29:50.100I mean, you know, when he was on the debate stage and accused to Jeb's face that George W. Bush had some complicity in 9-11, this is not a typical Republican.
00:29:58.560And Ted Cruz's dad shot JFK, this is not someone who's exactly playing with diplomatic niceties.
00:30:05.580At the same time, Kim Jong-un is a gangster regime, a murderer.
00:30:10.520So to treat him, again, like you treat Angela Merkel or Theresa May or Trudeau, you can't.
00:30:16.800Because he's not someone who, when you treat someone like that without aggression, you're in a sense validating the blood that they've gained.
00:30:26.700I have to think, too, that Trump, in his business dealings all around the world, has run into essentially this type of character many times, right?
00:30:35.640I mean, certainly not genocidal maniacs that he's selling real estate to, but really rich people with gigantic egos that want all the attention and all the best things.
00:30:44.460Those are the people he's probably dealing with on a fairly regular basis.
00:30:48.140This is certainly to a much different level.
00:30:50.520But he seems very familiar with this character type.
00:30:54.380Kim Jong-un is the ultimate case of being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.
00:31:02.000There is no one, literally, on Earth who's inherited more than him.
00:31:10.040So, yeah, if you're dealing in real estate, of course you're dealing with these rich kids who think they're brilliant and they're real estate magnets.
00:31:16.960And you smile and you shake your hand and you get their property from them.
00:31:20.360I mean, this is New York real estate 101.
00:31:22.760So I agree with that assessment completely.
00:31:25.620I mean, he's seen this song and dance many, many times, not in the sense of genocide, but certainly in the case of someone who just stumbled onto a phenomenally good situation for them.
00:31:35.420And Trump knows how to exploit that for his own benefit.
00:31:37.720I think it's interesting that he is the third generation.
00:31:41.820And if you study generational wealth, it is almost always the third generation that loses it.
00:31:51.740The son, you know, or the second generation, the first generation builds it.
00:31:57.720The second generation tries to, you know, maintain it, but they're, you know, they're not builders.
00:32:05.240And then the third generation just expects it and doesn't know necessarily what it takes or took to make it.
00:32:21.140And until you just said that, I didn't make a realization of the irony here, which is one of North Korea's rules is that of the great leader Kim Il-sung, where he says class enemies must be exterminated to three generations.
00:32:56.160If you are more excited that Trump fail than hope that North Korea becomes peacefully liberated, there's something fundamentally wrong with you.
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01:00:52.620You know, one of the other things that we're so bad at history that we have no idea about Korea.
01:01:03.940We have no idea North and South Korea and what they've been going through and what they really are like.
01:01:31.520But the men of Unit 124 had been trained to ignore the pain, and they were good at it.
01:01:37.360One of their exercises had been to run four miles in sub-zero temperatures, after all.
01:01:42.440With little regard to their frozen limbs, the men snuck past the U.S. guards along one of the most heavily guarded borders on Earth and into South Korea.
01:01:54.080After traversing rugged mountainsides undetected, they set up camp in a forested area roughly 30 miles from Seoul.
01:02:49.080By the time police and military had begun hunting for them, Unit 124 had already vanished.
01:02:56.140They were able to evade capture for two days, and on January 21, 1968, they reached the home of the president, the Blue House.
01:03:05.720About 10 p.m., wearing South Korean military garb, the men outfoxed the security officers guarding the building.
01:03:14.160They were within 100 yards of the Blue House when a sentry finally spotted them.
01:03:19.820The palace grounds erupted in gunfire.
01:03:21.960The commandos fled in all directions, chased by soldiers.
01:03:25.700The fight bled into the streets of Seoul, and at the end of the night, over two dozen South Koreans died, including civilians.
01:03:33.900The South Korean army hunted the men for three days, killing off as many as they could.
01:03:39.940In total, 29 of the unit's 31 soldiers were killed.
01:03:45.180The South Korean president, understandably, was furious, and it was time to retaliate.
01:03:52.420Enter our story, South Korean Unit 684.
01:03:58.600In response to the assassination attempt, the South Korean government organized Unit 684, and the men were advised to kill the leader of North Korea.
01:04:10.840Unit 684 was intentionally modeled after Unit 124, the North Korean assassination squad.
01:04:17.740That squad had 31 members, and so did Unit 684.
01:04:21.600They were trained to survive a little frostbite here and there, because nothing could stop them from their assassination mission.
01:04:31.720But unlike the decorated soldiers of the North Korean squad, the men of Unit 684 had little to no military experience.
01:04:41.120Some sources claim that the men were plucked from death row and offered a chance at redemption.
01:04:46.920Others claim that the men were vagrants and acrobats.
01:04:49.900One of the guards described the men as, quote,
01:04:53.360The kind who would get into street fights a lot, end quote.
01:04:58.280The training regimen was outlandishly cruel, and seven men died.
01:05:04.840At least one from just sheer exhaustion.
01:05:07.900Four of them attempted to escape the island they were on because they were frustrated with the beatings, the killings, and the poor conditions in the unit,
01:05:16.540And apparently wanted to alert authorities to their plight.