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Kim Jong-un just restarted his dance of death with America.The false calm is over; the old North Korean nuclear crisis is back on only, it has just entered a deadly serious phase. The government in Pyongyang is looking to establish a new normal: One where it gets to threaten San Francisco with incineration, and we get to do nothing. The United States only option for precluding this nightmare is to bring down the hammer on the Kim regime before its capabilities expand even further.
As usual, North Korea is setting the scene and the tempo for the dance of death now unfolding. Mr. Kim has just personally decreed an end to the season of diplomacy after personally summoning it into existence at the start of 2018.
In his New Years address that year, he publicly declared that the North Korean arms industry should mass-produce nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles the power and reliability of which had been well established, he also said. In the perverse logic of North Korean signaling and gamesmanship, this actually was an indirect overture: a suggestion that Mr. Kim might now agree to an invitation that he halt tests of both nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It was also a hint that he might be willing to enter into talks with the United States and South Korea....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/north-korea-nuclear-test.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Either Pompeo, Kushner, Mulvaney and/or another stupid psycho fellow from the bullshit t-rump's fucked up group could have pissed off the dictator from North Korea.
mia
(8,362 posts)are ripe for the picking for all of our enemies. They represent the clear and present danger of this administration.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)saying he's not concerned because Kim likes him.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Wanna bet they also send him a vase?
mia
(8,362 posts)a vise instead.
Cirque du So-What
(25,975 posts)Is the author of this screed a modern-day Judith Miller ginning-up support for war with NK?
soryang
(3,299 posts)Col. Maxwell is a military man, not a diplomat. Notice that there is a sales pitch for US intermediate ranged ballistic missiles to be deployed in the far east. I'm sure this will be profitable for many proponents in the defense industry but it's a provocative and destabilizing proposal. Suggesting that Seoul would get behind this is a fantasy.
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/12/maximum-pressure-leading-to-maximum.html