Posted on 08/15/2017 10:56:18 AM PDT by Innovative
With his public alarmed by President Trump’s recent threats to North Korea, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea issued an unusually blunt rebuke to the United States on Tuesday, warning that any unilateral military action against the North over its nuclear weapons program would be intolerable.
“No one should be allowed to decide on a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean agreement,” Mr. Moon said in a nationally televised speech.
As a candidate for the presidency, Mr. Moon, a liberal who took office in May, said he would “say no to the Americans” if necessary. But he has aligned South Korea more closely with its military ally than many had expected. Though he suspended the deployment of a United States missile defense system opposed by China, he reversed that decision last month after North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Time to get us out of there.
I was married to a half-Korean women who’s mom ran a black market business for the North during the war. Both are and were f***ing bat s**t crazy.
Got no use for more of them here.
Well, alrighty, then. Bye. We’re outta there. Handle your neighbor on your own.
At least the actresses age well, of course that's also due to plastic surgery.
Wrong answer Moonbat! When the Norks have Nukes pointed at us, we decide if and when to deal with it; you damned sure won’t.
Don’t post to me again.
What a fraud the phony South Korean traitorous non-leader is. Sure, he gets to make his statement today at the U.N., in the comfort that North Korea has already backed down as Trumps threats countered the North’s tit-for-tat.
Clinton, Bush II and Obama always contended that they had diplomatically communicated to North Korea and China that all our resources were on the table should North Korea ever threaten South Korea, the U.S. or Japan. That may be true.
But the North Korean dictator knew that private communications in such matters are LESS of a threat to them than public ones, and here’s why. It is much more difficult for western leaders to back down from publicly stated promises, than ones that have only been issued in private foreign policy communications.
The results are in, the private “diplomacy” does not work with North Korea because they understand that the U.S. leader will easily be able to back down from commitments in such diplomacy when North Korea violates any understanding or sanction; as Clinton, Bush II and Obama did.
With Trump, unlike Clinton, Bush II and Obama, North Korea clearly realized Trump would fulfill any promise he made on the issue; that he would not “lose face” by making such strong public assurances, and then fail to carry them out. Trump’s promise would be no “red line” he would allow to be violated as Obama did.
Bingo. There’s a LOT of public consumption going on this week, from Charlottesville to Korea.
And remember he had already met with Obama, ahead of Trump, when the norkie began getting all whacko.
The obedient part is misunderstood, I’m afraid.
And, leader of South Korea can go f**k himself.
Leader of S. Korea should just move to North Korea and see how he likes it there.
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