Face saving in Asian cultures is important. Kim is not giving himself much wiggle room
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True but in ‘true Devils Advocate’ mode, how would WE react if Nork/China/Russia were holding live fire drills?
The ‘excuse’ they were in the plans is not realistic (even though true) as picking up the phone could/would cancel them.
Phone works FAST...ask McNamara/LBJ how long it took the Jets that were dispatched to save the USS Liberty (AGR-5) while under attack from the Israelis in 1967 to be ordered back to their ‘home’, USS America (CV-66)
Lil kim had declared when all this lovey dovey talky started that he didn’t have a problem with the joint exercise. (Maybe it wasn’t in the papers here.) Either way, I like our response.
Try and keep up. These exercise were known by the rocket man and Trump said weeks and weeks ago they would go on as scheduled. In a gesture of good faith Trump did stand down our strategic assets and not use them in these exercises.
Fat man was on with this at the time and it was he who agreed to denuclearization.
As for China, Russia and N Korea holding live exercises? Who cares? They pose no threat to us militarily and all of them know they would be entirely decimated should they be stupid enough to attack us.