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<\/p>\nRUSH: Let\u2019s get to Korea. This is too juicy. This is just too juicy as to what\u2019s going on. Now, folks, I don\u2019t want to diminish it. I\u2019m not trying to suggest that it is not important because it clearly is. But you should know that members of the Trump administration are not buying into this yet, and Trump is still saying that he\u2019s gonna be prepared to walk out if he thinks anything about this is not on the up and up. It is historic. This is the first North Korean, communist, potbellied dictator to actually walk across the border into South Korea.<\/p>\n
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The South Koreans have gone north since 1954, but the North Koreans have never come south. They\u2019ve never crossed the DMZ. Kim Jong-un did. Believe me, he wants to eat, and they\u2019re running out of that in North Korea. They\u2019re probably running out of Johnnie Walker Blue Label in North Korea as well. You gotta go to the south to get it. We\u2019ve seen the pictures of the South Korean president smiling and hugging with Kim Jong-un — and, by the way, the image remake on Kim Jong-un is well underway.<\/p>\n
On Twitter you can find, “This guy\u2019s so cute! This is so cute! We love this guy!” supposedly from South Koreans. “He\u2019s so cute. Man, this guy could do stand-up, this guy\u2019s so funny.” It\u2019s amazing how mass murderers get romanticized by the American left. At any rate, everybody\u2019s saying, “What happened here? Why all of a sudden…?” I mean, just months ago this guy\u2019s threatening to launch a nuclear missile and hit California.<\/p>\n
And then Trump starts calling him rocket man and Trump starts saying, “We\u2019re not gonna put up with this. You\u2019d better think twice about this.” He sent Pompeo over there to talk with him, secret meeting, and all of a sudden Kim Jong-un… They\u2019re having a peace summit today. It probably already happened \u2019cause they\u2019re 12, 14 hours ahead of us over there. It\u2019s 1:30 in the morning or 2:30 there. It\u2019s in that ballpark. They may be 10 hours ahead. I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n
I could find it in a jiffy if I wanted to waste time and call it up on my world clock. But for the most part… I mean, Kim Jong-un may not be in bed because everybody knows he\u2019s a big playboy and they don\u2019t have any nightclubs in North Korea. So that\u2019s another reason he crossed the DMZ and went south. He loves those disco lights. But seriously, what changed? Well, it\u2019s been reported out there in the South China Morning Post,<\/a> which is good paper. I read that once when I was in Hong Kong years and years ago. Rupert Murdoch owns it.<\/p>\n And the Washington Post has also got a brief little story about what\u2019s really going on<\/a>. And as a prelude to that we have CNN story: “South Korea Credits Trump for Talks with the North<\/a>.” You know how it had to hurt CNN to write that headline on their website? I can\u2019t wait \u2019til they have to report “Trump Wins Nobel Prize.” You think if it\u2019s verified that the Norks have parked their nukes, that Trump would get the Nobel Peace Prize? Don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s 2:37, so they\u2019re 13 hours ahead. It\u2019s 2:37 Saturday in South Korea. So the clubs are just getting going in many areas. I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s where you\u2019ll find Kim Jong-un with his security detail, which is eating raw corn \u2019cause that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. So, anyway, back to North Korea here and CNN. Somebody named Kang Kyung-wha in South Korea “told CNN that [Trump] had played a significant role in bringing the two sides together. ‘Clearly, credit goes to President Trump,\u2019 Kang told CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour in Seoul.<\/p>\n I said, “Trump knows the guy\u2019s insane and so Trump\u2019s dealing with him as a fellow insane leader.” He knows the only thing that Kim Jong-un\u2019s gonna react to is a fellow — another — insane leader, and it worked! So Trump goes what appears to be insane on Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un thinks he owns insane, so here comes Trump. You know what Kim Jong-un did? He called people in Washington seeking advice on how to deal with the guy. Trump has played this masterfully, there\u2019s no question about it, but there are other reasons why this happened — and they involve nuclear testing.<\/p>\n The nub of this is that Kim Jong-un\u2019s nuclear testing has destroyed a couple of mountains where the testing was taking place, and one of the mountains was like a volcano. A hole was created in the top and radiation may be seeping out of it, and it\u2019s near the border with China, and the ChiComs are livid at Kim Jong-un and essentially they\u2019ve said, “What the hell are you doing? You shut this down right now,” because literally they\u2019re destroying mountains. Their nuclear testing has put the geography of certain areas of North Korea in grave danger.<\/p>\n “According to two studies…” It\u2019s the ChiComs that have made these studies public. This is a fascinating thing here, folks, because everybody says, “This is an about-face like we haven\u2019t seen.” I mean, one day Kim Jong-un\u2019s threatening destruction and literally the next week he\u2019s suing for peace. “According to two studies authored by [ChiCom] scientists and reported by the Wall Street Journal,” which means the ChiComs had to release this data, “the North Korean nuclear weapons have been too effective.”<\/p>\n “Soon after the sixth and largest blast last September, satellite images suggested that one part of the site, a 7,200-foot granite peak called Mount Mantap” I\u2019m not making that up “had diminished in height. Some U.S. and South Korean experts suggested that tunnels inside the mountain…” Which you would need the tunnels to move the missiles into place. You have to have, you know, pathways to get all the equipment in place to do the test. “[E]xperts suggested that tunnels … had collapsed, rendering much of the site useless.<\/p>\n “Now, the two [ChiCom] studies give credence to that theory. They both used data from seismic monitoring stations in China and abroad to analyze the initial 6.3-magnitude tremor caused by the” last test. There was a tremor, aftershock, after that last test, 6.3 magnitude. There\u2019s another one 8-1\/2 minutes later that was almost like another test that nobody knew was coming. That\u2019s how much damage Kim Jong-un is doing to his own mountain. His own test mountain has collapsed on his missiles!<\/p>\n His own test mountain has collapsed and a giant hole is now on the top of the mountain where it is feared radiation is seeking seeping through like it would be from a volcano. The blast in September was the last conducted at this particular mountain, although there seems to be some debate over whether it remains functional, but a lot of people think that it isn\u2019t. And if all this has happened — and, again, the South China Morning Post,<\/a> the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post say because the ChiComs have released their seismology, their study, the ChiComs want…<\/p>\n Now, it could be trickery. They may be lying to us. The mountain hasn\u2019t been destroyed and Kim Jong-un\u2019s not sun-setting anything, and this is a giant, fake meeting. Kim Jong-un\u2019s nukes are still gonna be valid. But the best thinking on this is that the ChiComs are fit to be tied over what this guy has done, exposing that whole region to nuclear radiation and that they have ordered him to shut this down.<\/p>\n “‘The test was not only destabilising the site but increasing the risk of eruption of the Changbai Mountain,\u2019 a large, active volcano at [ChiCom]-Korean border…” If that\u2019s true, now and then there is no doubt that Xi Jinping, the head ChiCom leader, has made it perfectly clear to Kim Jong-un, “If you continue to want to swallow Johnnie Walker Blue, then you\u2019re gonna shut this crap down right now. We\u2019re not gonna let you and your incompetence kill us.”<\/p>\n Now, if all that\u2019s true, if Kim Jong-un has basically destroyed the mountain (laughing) in which he was conducting his nuclear tests, he\u2019s got no choice. He can\u2019t launch. He can\u2019t test. He can\u2019t develop. It would take billions and billions of dollars to develop a new test site, and the North Koreans do not have billions and billions of anything except hungry people.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n The Light within Me is the title of Ainsley\u2019s new book, and she was talking today with Lindsey Grahamnesty, who\u2019s also from South Carolina, about the reports of an agreement between North and South Korea to end the Korean War, and Ainsley Earhardt said, “You saw the images, leaders of North and South Korea today, you saw the news. Is this really gonna end the war?”<\/p>\n GRAHAM: Here\u2019s the deal. It wouldn\u2019t have happened without Trump. Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change. We\u2019re not there yet. But if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. A word of warning: The worst thing Kim Jong-un could do is play Trump, to go through all these motions and go back to the old way of doing business. Donald Trump will not tolerate being played. We\u2019re either gonna have peace or gonna have a war now, because Kim Jong-un has made a mistake if he\u2019s not serious and is playing Trump.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah. Now, there\u2019s a lot going on here. I told you about the likely destruction of the test mountains. I know it sounds funny, because it\u2019s that little cherubic, disco-loving, pot-bellied dictator that\u2019s done it, but the guy is a deadly tyrant who looks like a Cabbage Patch doll that you would picked up at Walmart back in the seventies, if there had been a Walmart. I think there was. But the truth is the guy is a vicious, bloody murderer, as his whole family has been.<\/p>\n The ChiComs have released news that the test mountains used for six underground nuclear tests have been destroyed and that the tunnels built into the mountain so they could move material and the test devices through have collapsed. And so the facilities for testing nukes have been destroyed. And one of the mountains is on the ChiCom-North Korean border where there might be some radiation leakage, in which case the ChiComs would have read this guy the Riot Act. And somebody sent me an email.<\/p>\n “Rush, why wouldn\u2019t the ChiComs take credit. Why would they let Trump get credit if it was the ChiComs that actually told this guy to stand down?” ‘Cause I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just that. I think there\u2019s a whole lot of other stuff that\u2019s happened that Kim Jong-un noticed, and I am holding those things here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. The first is a story from the Washington Free Beacon today. The headline: “Mattis on Russian Mercenaries in Syria: I Ordered Their Annihilation.<\/a>”<\/p>\n So it could well be that one of the reasons Kim Jong-un came to the table… By the way, remember… Somebody sent me a note. “How come every one of these guys is named Kim?” I said, “Because Kim is the last name. They pronounce the last name first in China — in North Korea.” So in the way we pronounce names his name is actually Jong-un Kim, and his father was Il-sung Kim, but they pronounce the last name, the family name first. So Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un. That\u2019s why they\u2019re all Kims.<\/p>\n They all are Kims. It\u2019s the last name.<\/p>\n But you remember that Kim Jong-un was bragging as recently as January about his button, about his nuclear button? He said, “The whole territory of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear strike and a nuclear button is always on the desk of my office.” Remember how Trump replied to that? “I got a button, too, and my button\u2019s bigger than yours.” I don\u2019t think we should ignore the results of a little-reported battle in Syria a month later, February 7th and February 8th, in which the Russian mercenaries were wiped off the face of the earth by U.S. forces.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030918-Trump-Kim-Jong-Un-North-Korea.jpg\")
“‘He\u2019s been determined to come to grips with this from day one.\u2019 … President Trump\u2019s rhetoric, of course, has shifted on North Korea as a summit became a more real possibility. In August, [Trump] threatened ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen.\u2019 In September, he said ‘Rocket Man is on a suicide mission.\u2019 This week, he said that Kim Jong-un had been ‘very open and I think very honorable.'” I predicted this. I told you way back. Everybody didn\u2019t know what Trump was doing by calling him rocket man.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NorthKoreaNukeMountain-1.jpg\")
<\/a>Let me give you an excerpt. “A large part of North Korea\u2019s underground nuclear test facility, which leader Kim Jong Un pledged to close, is unusable anyway due to the collapse of a cavity inside the mountain after the last [nuclear test] there, Chinese scientists say. Seismologists involved in a soon-to-be-published study also warned that another [test] in the same spot and with similar yield could cause ‘environmental catastrophe,”‘ throughout the region not just in North Korea.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042718-North-Korea.jpg\")
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<\/a>RUSH: Lindsey Grahamnesty was on Fox & Friends<\/a> this morning. Ainsley Earhardt… By the way, Ainsley has a new book, My Inner Light or The Light of My Light.<\/a> I forget what it is. But she went back to her alma mater today. She was in South Carolina on the road and she was doing interviews. Give me the name of the book. I can\u2019t… It\u2019s something about light. “Light” is in the title. Light Up My Light? Light of My Light? Something. I Am Light. Anyway… The Light We See It Is! My Light…<\/p>\n