Thread by @BonicMichael

Hello Washington
@JoeBiden
@POTUS
@VP
@HouseForeign
I think you're going to need more in your arsenal of negotiating strategies if you don't want DPRK to slam the door on you. The CVID of North Korea is ballast that must be discarded for diplomacy to make progress.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1390334269512318985

2/What are the balloons and sandbags in the US's diplomatic efforts to reach stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula?

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3/An objective solution can be reached. The "ballast" of the US not deviating from the CVID of DPRK (which many analysts advise against) is a monkey wrench sabotaging the diplomatic path to stability and peace on the KP, the "balloon".

4/If the CVID of DPRK is more important to you than stability & peacetime in a post-War Korean Peninsula, and you don't "cut ballast", you might lead the world over the cliff. The USA is better than that. Why are you bullying DPRK? We faced MAD w/ the USSR! So cut some "ballast"!

4/@SecDef
@SecBlinken
A definite "balloon" is the willingness to accept DPRK as a nuclear state. They'll find their seat at the table b4 you can blink an eye. I'm willing to bet they'll
* Agree to all nonproliferation terms in the NPT
* Agree to USFK & the Mutual Defense Treaty

5/staying in place in South Korea
* Agree to a Maximum Limit (numbers of nukes & ICBMs/SLBMs) to their nuclear deterrence capability. It'll be to your surprise to find out they WANT TO DO THIS. They don't WANT to have to perfect their nuclear program, they feel they HAVE NO

6/CHOICE!! B/c yes, they REALLY BELIEVE you might do any of regime change, decapitation strike or god forbid preemptive nuclear first strike. John Bolton's "Legal Case For Striking North Korea First" gives them nightmares! DON'T PRETEND IT DOESN'T, PUH-LEASE. Their thinking I bet

7/goes something like this (translated from Korean): "The dam US is still f###ing hostile!! They still want us to fully denuke!! But we can't do that, they cannot be trusted! Look at Libya! Dam US. We have no choice but to keep strengthening our deterrent b/c if they do attack us

8/we have two be ready to defend ourselves as best as we can..."
So basically the DPRK, a de facto No First Use nuclear state, wants to live at peace in the international community as a nuclear state like Pakistan, India, Russia, China or the US, but the US & UN won't let it.

9/If you choose the path to normalization (which many experts say is the most pragmatic & practical approach, b/c it will reduce tensions and minimize threats) I'm sure they'll sit and trade the path of perfecting their nuclear program for the path leading to peace today. ☮️☮️☮️

10/For after all, they are as human as you or me, and value peace as we do, and more than the US (Pentagon & D.C. war hawks) want to turn the page and put the Korean War behind. A majority of Americans, and the entire world, want to put the K War behind. So why don't you?