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Thursday, March 08, 2018

Is North Korea Really Willing to De-nuclearize? Nope.

On Tuesday, after North and South Korean officials engaged in diplomatic talks (importantly, talks initiated by the North), South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s office stated, “The North Korean side clearly stated its willingness to de-nuclearize. It made it clear that it would have no reason to keep nuclear weapons if the military threat to the North was eliminated and its security guaranteed.” That’s a seemingly significant about-face from mere months ago, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was threatening “thousands-fold” vengeance, “Armageddon” and vowing to annihilate the U.S. down to “the last man on this planet.”

So did Kim just get religion? Not likely.

This is a game the world has seen — and fallen for — too many times. The provoking nation invites the world’s ire and subsequent sanctions, only to then signal a desire to negotiate and willingness to change its provocative ways. Soon it obtains sanctions relief, only to later renege on its promised changes while leveling blame on the other negotiating parties for supposedly failing to uphold their end of the bargain. Kim Jong-un is attempting to play this gambit — the same one both his father and grandfather successfully exploited.

So what is Kim really after here?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so ridiculous!! They say that their willing to comply then we given them billions likecwe did Iran and eventually eliminate ourselves off the planet with our own money

Anonymous said...

I have an ex-wife just like that. When the pressure was on she would promise the moon and the stars. When she got a little bit of slack she was up to her old tricks again. Fortunately we have a president who has experience dealing with ex-wives so we wont get played like we did for the last 24 years!

Anonymous said...

What military threat to the North? The DMZ?

Anonymous said...

ONLY way to De-Nuke NK is to NUKE NK !!!! Period

Anonymous said...

Would U believe Stalin ?? Why believe NK then ???

Anonymous said...

NK will DEE-NUKE after Firing all it's Missiles at us !!!

Anonymous said...

This is like Sally promising to hold the football for Charlie Brown so he can kick it....Rats!

Anonymous said...

Dog and pony show too delay $$$$$

Anonymous said...

I think Kim is hoping he can kill Trump when he is there.