High-Level Defector Ambassador Thae Spills Beans on North Korea’s Intent vis-à-vis Trump

YouTube ^ | Nov. 1, 2017 | C-Span via YouTube

[AmericanInTokyo]

“A top North Korean defector (will) testify on Capitol Hill next week as Congress mulls new ways to increase pressure on the rogue regime, a senior Republican announced.

Thae Yong-ho served as the second-highest ranking North Korean diplomat in the United Kingdom until last year, when he defected to South Korea. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce touted his "valuable insights" into the vulnerabilities of dictator Kim Jong Un as the motivation for Wednesday's hearing.”

[AmericanInTokyo]

Link the Youtube clip is above. Instructive and interesting, if not pertinent.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

[eyedigress]

He calls it blackmail. Does he understand what he is saying?
Trump is a master foreign investment banker.

Thae Yong Ho speaks English well.

The agreement will keep Fat Boi in power and feed his people.

Threats will not be tolerated.

[TigerLikesRooster]

N. Korea first wants to soften up S. Korea from inside. NK already has its loyal clients in S. Korea. They will undermine any institution getting in their way, including SK military. It won't be an upfront military invasion. It wants to turn S. Korea into its satellite or vassal, while nominally both Koreas take the form of federated governments. In a democratic contest, NK can have most of its population on its side, and they can find enough stupid gullible people in S. Korea(let's say one-third of SK population.) Then they can even win popular election, too. Nukes are useful means of intimidation in this process, too. Or they can choose the final step of invasion. By that time, their military would be rebuilt with money and investment from overseas.

[eyedigress]

The USA is not leaving the DMZ.

[skr]

Did he actually defect or was he allowed to defect in order to spread disinformation?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Concur

[AmericanInTokyo]

You might ask him.

[Samurai_Jack]

the Norks are going to emulate the chinese in their efforts over taiwan. They will use whatever influence they have to force the world to be intolerant of language that refers to the independence of the south korean border.

In the case of the chinese they are insisting that airlines travelling into their mainland must not refer to taiwan as an independent nation. They seek to erase any distinction between the Taiwanese and the Chinese. Ultimately without that distinction the chinese will eventually be able to walk across the dissolved border. Taiwan will become a satellite state of the chinese.

The same program is in store for South Korea.

[eyedigress]

That may not go over well with NK.

[PIF]

Sounds suspiciously like my thought that Korea will be unified under Kim - the weak Moon will step down.

[ronnie raygun]

Fat boi is China’s ambassador, they want control on the entire area. South Korea is their only threat in the area, if neutered China can just roll in nukes from the border to fat boi

[BeadCounter]

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[BeadCounter]

Oh, this from last November, all the same, instructive.

[9YearLurker]

Sounds to me more like this guy is a compromised CIA/MI6 asset trying to undo Trump’s success with NK.

[2Dreamin]

Bingo. Remember jolly old England gave us Mr. Steele.

[Yo-Yo]

How convenient that a ‘defector’ arrives now to tell us Kim’s genuine motives.

[BeauBo]

“N. Korea first wants to soften up S. Korea from inside.”

I think that is the long game, strategized by their Chinese overlords. Just following “The Art of War” - The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

China has made fantastic gains by playing on the gullibility of Westerners, while corrupting their politicians and institutions.

They need profits from trade with the West, and Western technology, to dominate the West - even to just keep the Nork dictatorship from collapsing.

[9YearLurker]

One of the best bits of news is that Trump and Co. are clearly onto them. No “special relationship” (in a positive sense) here!

[blu]

This is from November, 2017.

I have a feeling things have changed.