Oh boy, Strategic threat on US nukes as part of reasons to uncanelled talks.
Lol, they were never going to give up nukes.
Holy Fuck. What is this shit?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdRFXmyVQAARu-O.jpg?format=jpg
From NK news sources.
It's called, Trump gets played by the same old game North Korea's always played:
Threaten aggressive military action against their neighbours/the USA
Suddenly become amenable to peace talks
Gleefully accept funding and supplies from the outside world meant to encourage North Korea to proceed with the talks
Get bored of playing nicely and go back to step 1 while making use of all the stuff they were just given
The orange fool took a fucking flying swan dive off a cliff he was so eager to take credit for the deal. He's so desperate for the appearance of glory that he declared victory well in advance of the deal being finalized, spending a good week bragging that he does in fact deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for reunifying the Koreas before anything actually happened. Kim has just pulled the floor out from under Trump and he has nowhere to go and he cannot handle being embarrassed by claiming credit for a failed deal. Trump is going to scramble to get any deal just so he can brag that he did the deal nobody else could, even if the deal's literally nothing but weakened sanctions on North Korea in exchange for nothing.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/05/16/0200000000AEN20180516002700315.html
Looks like the B-52 won't be showing up after all.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/996577572237410304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/996577892493660160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
What the fuck just happened.
https://i.imgur.com/rTELdSC.jpg
Kim felt like internal propaganda was getting stale, so he played the "Let's give it a shot, see what they do, also no I don't intend to do anything" card. You can be damn sure NK state propaganda is having a field day and the brainwashing atm is getting stronger than ever.
Tbh they can't really advance with more nukes. They destroyed their only testing site. Missile tests are still possible but nuclear warheads cannot be easily tested anymore.
Also take into account the personnel killed and equipment destroyed when the testing site collapsed.
This cycle will not end until the N.Korean government is replaced. That's what I'm gathering from this.
Boy, I feel downright foolish for being optimistic about the situation before this.
There was a video that got posted in the videos section of this forum just a few weeks ago about how this is the North Korean pattern of behavior.
Elix outlined every point of the pattern clearly. I was kinda' hoping that this time would be different, but I'm not exactly surprised. There's that old saying about fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, etc. This is just kinda' what they do.
Yes they can. There's no special requirements for a nuclear test.
god fucking dammit
Indeed.
I'm not surprised, just disappointed.
I'm not surprised, but at the same time I can sorta see how military drills would upset the north when we're working on a thing that ends the hostilities. Maybe pausing the war games wouldn't hurt this one time? I think that if we can keep them at the table by chilling a bit and holding off on complete denuking then that would be beneficial. There's no way we can do this overnight and turn them into a good place with one meeting. Allowing NoKo to keep their existing nukes for now while agreeing to dismantle their testing sites and open up more relations with the world would be advantageous if it calmed down hostilities. North Korea is not going to use the nukes because they're smart enough to know offensive use will be the end of them. Those nukes are for defense. If we can calm down the peninsula then down the road maybe the situation will improve.
Denuclearization is unrealistic, and shouldn't hold up a chance at calming things down as those nukes will never be used offensively.
Why on earth would they ever agree to denuclearization when they pissed off everyone around them.
I wonder what kind of mental hoops the people who praised Trump for his "diplomatic efforts on de-escalating the NK-situation" have to go through to make this still seem like a good thing that makes him deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
They'll just blame South Korea for fucking it up and that way nothing is God-Emperor Trump's fault.
House Republicans nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Doh! shoulda probably held off, but then this admin runs on platitudes and fealty
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Everything between usual Korean tactics and John Bolton.
Just a negotiating tactic, I think. After initially coming on as very friendly (Olympic team, leaders hugging etc) they pull back a bit to remind everyone involved of the stakes, to get the upper hand at the start of the negotiations and setting the mood for extra big concessions towards NK.
The "hoops" I've seen so far on Facebook are basically "we're not bringing it up lol".
Guarantee you the new narrative will be "At least Trump tried while Obongo did nothing!!!!"
"Something something TAXES something something HILLARY something LIBERAL TEARS"
Benghazi
North Korea is the most broken country on earth and is ran by bat shit insane egomaniacs, who's leader orders his uncle to be eaten alive by dogs and allows millions of his own people to starve and who's society makes Iran look like a glorious liberal utopia. It's also consistently done nothing but threaten the world with nuclear war and has fuck all to offer to the world.
I never brought it for a moment. Kim also mentioned being cool with the South shortly after he got sworn in and we saw what happened with that.
The North will never, EVER become cool with the South as long as it's ran by nut jobs who's only method is violence and fear.
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