Posted on 10/27/2016 7:59:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday it was “probably a lost cause” trying to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons capability. But a State Department spokesman said that was not the Obama administration’s position — denuclearization of the peninsula remains the goal.
“I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause,” Clapper said at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “They are not going to do that. That is their ticket to survival.”
Clapper said from Pyongyang’s perspective, “they are under siege and they are very paranoid. So the notion of giving up their nuclear capability, whatever it is, is a nonstarter with them.” …
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This is nonpossible because Clinton promised us No Nukes in Korea.
Just like 0bama / Clinton in Iran.
North Korea will eventually collapse on itself. They may set off every nuke they got, just for the hell of it, when it does.
And giving them an economic incentive in the hope of limiting their pursuit of nuclear weapons is even a bigger nonstarter. If they give him money, they will go ahead and use it to finish their development of Mobile ICBM. A couple of annual visits to known nuclear facilities to check readings from monitoring devices won't achieve anything.
Many tend to do things to assuage their frustration instead of actually resolving the problem. Unfortunately, many so-called experts fall nicely into this category.
Frustrated with N. Korea? Then spank China, instead of nibbling at the edges, going all bleeding-heart to Chinese regime, as if heart-felt pleading would achieve anything. Negotiation without a big stick, what a wonderful strategy.
No one, NO ONE, gives a shi...er...Obama about our silly little low-T marshmallow major populated State Department.
After all, with Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch as president, and two of the dumbest people (the witch and the cretin who pretended to serve in VietNam) all countries know that they are far smarter and can outwit the State Dept twits easily.
Clinton in the 1990s allowed NK to develop their nuclear program. Ever since nothing has been done
We’ve been waiting for NK to “collapse on itself” for 68 years. Propping up their chief benefactor (Red China) will not accelerate that goal, but reverse it. Remember that the USSR did not fail until Reagan stood up to them.
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