South Korea and Japan should immediately go nuclear. It wouldn’t be good for the US but it would immediately provide a counterbalance to China and the Norks.
South Korea and Japan should immediately go nuclear. It wouldn’t be good for the US but it would immediately provide a counterbalance to China and the Norks.
It’s nice to know that there are other parts of the globe besides the Middle East that are FUBAR.
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“As nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the United States remain in a stalemate after no “substantial outcome” from their recent encounter in Sweden, the lack of visible progress in the denuclearization dialogue is raising concerns that the North is “buying time” for its military and nuclear advancement. “
Who in the administration did NOT understand that from day one that was all Kim was interested in achieving - buying time. I understood that, why didn’t they??
That is all that all of the Kims have ever used any negotiations for. Why? The core of their constitution, their foundation, their core understanding of themselves REQUIRES reunification of the penninsula UNDER THEIR BANNER.
They do not even recognize the government of South Korea as legitimate, and that is why the most serious negotiations about war and peace to them must be with the United States, not South Korea. When they sit with the United States in negotiations, in their mind they are there representing all of the Korean people, north and south.
To them the aspirations of the people of South Korea are irrelevant to war and peace. To them it is all about the Kim regime versus the United States.
Given the U.S. and South Korea’s understanding of themselves in the situation, it is more than the fact that together they are on an opposing side verus North Korea, they are on a different mental plane.
You have to understand that to understand how simple words about the negotiations or any result of them means different things to North Korea than they do to everybody else.
The U.S. administrations have been caught in that conundrum over and over again. They hear the North say one thing, without consulting the foundational concepts of the regime in the North, to understand what that means IN THEIR TERMS.
The implication in this article, and in some of the replies, is that the Norks wouldn’t have done this if on Pres. Trump had done things differently.
We all know that short of a decapitation move against the Norks, they would continue to make nukes. Should the President have blockaded the North, including their borders with China and Russia? Should he have tried to take out their nuke facilities? Maybe he could have convinced the Chicoms to overthrow Lil Kim.