Pyongyang needs a MOAB on Kim U-fat's. HQ.
Posted on 03/09/2017 7:24:05 AM PST by mandaladon
A sophisticated missile defense system being delivered to South Korea may give President Trump a bargaining chip that no other U.S. president has had to pressure China to rein in North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs. Beijing has long expressed anger over the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) shield, and on Wednesday, just two days after the Trump administration announced the start of the system’s deployment, Chinese officials suddenly signaled that they may be ready to increase pressure on Pyongyang. In an unusual and public proposal that analysts say exposed Beijing’s growing alarm over the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters that Pyongyang could suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for a halt in joint U.S.-South Korean military drills that the North has long condemned as a rehearsal for an invasion. The Trump administration and South Korea quickly threw cold water on the proposal as the U.N. Security Council convened a closed-door session on Pyongyang’s ballistic missile tests — including a simultaneous launch Monday in which a missile crashed into waters just 190 miles off the coast of Japan.
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Ping.
Nice move, Mr. President
North Korea has been extremely unreliable with negotiations. They can always find an excuse to do what they want, any agreement to the contrary. They depend on China to back them up.
Why should we assume they will act in good faith in the future.
After the way Clinton acted in former Yugoslavia, why would other nations trust our agreements?
There’s a new Sheriff in town.
The fat little tyrant in NK will probably be room temperature within a year.................
NK is under no obligation to “keep their word”. People who negotiate with them are wasting their time. Every year, NK gets less and less able to perform offensive action against SK. They are basically reduced to saber rattling.
All they really do is annoy China by making China’s adversaries ramp up their military. The real question is Russia. What’s their take on all this.
What China should be afraid of is THAAD on the Korean peninsula threatens China’s expansionist agenda. Their missile strategy just went in the crapper, especially since it now gives the US and allies a chance to intercept and fire back as retaliation.
Eyeball-to-eyeball with the Chinese, and the Chinese blinked.
WINNING!!!
Keep up the fantastic work, Mr. President!
Trump needs to send some of these to the Philippines.
And Formosa too.
Can you expand on your idea that the Norks are less able to carry on offensive operations? I’m sure you’re right but just curious why you posted that. On what basis, what info.
Thanks.
They don’t have any modern equipment other than rockets and anti-ship missiles. All their designs are 50 years old.
Ok that makes sense, thanks.
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