Posted on 12/07/2019 5:35:04 PM PST by datura
China controls North Korea; essentially as a proxy province. As a result Beijing controls the messaging from the DPRK. Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping is the captor and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un is the captive its essentially a hostage dynamic. The historic objective has been to use DPRK aggression as a hedge against the west.
Predictably there was going to come a moment when Chairman Xi realized the trade negotiations by his adversary, President Trump, were a hall of mirrors. The U.S. President has played China by using their own panda-mask strategy against them.
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The only thing that is knowledgeable, without reference to anything else in the article, is that North Korea will likely demonstrate additional missile tests.
The reason for that is because it wanted removal of U.S. sanctions before any agreement on anything else and Trump wants an agreement on denucleariztion before ending any sanctions. The talks began and ended on a dead end.
The rest of the article is the author’s own speculations.
Good point. These deep state asshats will start a war, sacrifice countless lives needlessly, all to take the attention off them. I don't know if the majority of Americans know how truly evil these deep stater's really are.
My hope is that one morning we wake up to US Troops stationed in NK and a huge amount of fanfare at the UN at NK becomes another independent nation, who may someday join together with SK.
Denuclearization was never on the table. Not from North Korea’s standpoint. China or no China.
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