Go figure.
Posted on 05/17/2015 12:29:25 PM PDT by DanMiller
North Korea played those negotiating its denuclearization for fools, much as Iran has been doing more recently with Obama. It must not have been difficult to do. To continue the process with Iran, and to repeat it with North Korea, makes no sense.
Speaking in the People's Republic of China on May 16th, Secretary Kerry offered North Korea a nuke deal --
Kerry explained that an Iran deal could help in showing North Korea how “your economy can do better, your country can do better, and you can enter into good standing with the rest of the global community by recognizing --just like Iran-- that there is a verifiable, irreversible, denuclearization for weaponization, even as you can have a peaceful nuclear power program.”
Iran has not agreed to "a verifiable, irreversible, denuclearization for weaponization" and likely never will. On April 15th, Iran disputed the accuracy of the Obama Administration's April 2nd "fact sheet," which had made such claims about the deal. In the highly unlikely event that Iran were it to claim to do accept such terms, it would "cheat" as it has done in the past. In this video, John Bolton speaks about the "deal" with Iran as well as the North Korean connection.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oicS18ibxkQ]
Nevertheless, Iran has already received many of the rewards of essentially irreversible sanctions relief, including augmented power, both military and financial, in the Middle East.
A deal like the one Iran is about to get by virtue of the Iran scam should be welcomed by North Korea. The countries have long cooperated on nukes and missile development, a matter apparently ignored during Obama's P5+1 "negotiations" with Iran.
Kerry also said,
the United States will continue to work with its partners “to make it absolutely clear to the DPRK that their actions, their destabilizing behavior --unlike Iran's-- is unacceptable against any international standard.” [Emphasis added.]
Iran's destabilization efforts and successes are, in Kerry's view, apparently not "against any international standard." Yet Iran does far more regional destabilizing than does North Korea -- North Korea mainly relies upon bellicose bluster (with infrequent military actions against South Korea). Iran -- a major if not the most active sponsor of terrorism -- sends its proxies throughout the Middle East while accusing America and others of destabilization. A likely "signing bonus" of up to fifty billion dollars for Iran if and when the "deal" is finalized will substantially further Iran's hegemonic ambitions and power as well as its missile and nuclear weapons development.
Here's a video of Iran having some fun:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ7X2Vuh_ok]
According to Hossein Salami, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Iran welcomes war with the United States:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwV92w2AMWA]
This North Korean propaganda video purports to displays North Korean military prowess:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnmfrFXsRoc]
Conclusions
The rogue nations of Iran and North Korea are both intent upon maximizing their nuclear weapon capabilities. Both are totalitarian and have obscene human rights records. To trust either would be a gross mistake; yet that appears to be what Obama intends to do.
The only thing notably missing from Kerry's offer is a requirement that North Korea abandon the Religion of Kim and adopt the glorious "Religion of Peace" instead. That would help North Korea to fit even better than at present into Obama's policy of supporting America's enemies and rejecting her friends. If Kim Jong-un would merely recognize Allah as the superior power, perhaps he could become the first Korean Ayatollah. Obama would probably be thrilled were North Korea to become the Democratic Islamic Republic of Korea (DIRK).
I don’t think Obama is playing the fool vis a vis Iran. He hates Shias and he hates Jews. What he is doing will get Iran The Bomb in fairly short order. Iran is expected, then to attempr to nuke Tel Aviv and or other Israeli cities. If Israel has not got something up its missile defense sleeve we don’t yet know about, Israel will be hit. If Israel is hit its scattered nukes will perfect the Iranian Desert. Both of the Sunni’s prime enemies are eliminated from the board and the Sunni Caliphate is shortly the primary power in the Middle East and Africa and pushing massively into Europe and Central Asia.
I just figured this for one of yours John.
Certainly a hot lead...
There, fixed it.
Ever notice that in those Chamberlain photos, nobody is smiling?
Obama Foreign Policy vs. What We're Up Against .....
Go figure.
And had a Laosey time of it...
KERRY needs ANOTHER lobotomy
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