2/IF the US is NOT prepared to co-exist w/ a nuclear DPRK, THEN DPRK's nuclear weapons are NON-negotiable.
IF US IS prepared to co-exist w/ a nuclear DPRK, THEN DPRK's nuclear weapons are NEGOTIABLE.

To negotiate or not to negotiate. That is the question.
4/Btw this 👆isn't"appeasement", It's the age-old diplomatic path, such as that which Native American Indian chiefs took to reach a peace treaty and smoke the peace pipe.
5/Choe Son Hui: “DPRK's nuclear weapons are non-negotiable, unless the U.S. is prepared to co-exist w/ the nuclear DPRK. Because this is the only way to ensure lasting peace on the Korean peninsula and stability and security in the NE Asia."
6/The full glass = DPRK never puts the brakes on its nukes & ICBMs.
The empty glass = the CVID of DPRK.

The full glass is unacceptable to US.
The empty glass is unacceptable to DPRK.

DPRK might concede to a glass half-full deal if it leads to a peace treaty, normalization and
7/being recognized as a limited nuclear state. If that's as good as it'll ever get, why not go for it? If once the details are hammered out security will be assured on the KP, it strains credulity to risk it all on a CVID pipe dream that hasn't worked & could result in conflict.
8/There is no ambiguity in Choe Son Hui’s words. The DPRK’s MFA North America Dept Head delivers Pyongyang’s No First Use message in crystal clarity to US & world. Peace may be attainable if the US can live/“coexist” w/ a limited nuclear DPRK. (I think.)

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Anthony Ruggiero: “…the North Korean regime is not actually as interested in the North Korean people as these humanitarian organizations.”
WRONG. KJU is ACTUALLY doing everything he can to boost economy, grow food & build housing UNDER BRUTAL SANCTIONS.
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2/Ruggiero typifies the error of erudition not based in the real world but in a fictitious construct that is real only in the subjective imagination. I.e that's "all in the mind". He's actually saying that the Workers' Party of Korea "isn't interested in the North Korean people".
3/He gets to be taken to task for what is one of the most ignorant comments I've ever heard from a supposed "expert". So KJU is "not interested" in improving DPRK's economy??

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THE LIE:👇
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2/On Oct. 20, Choe Son Hui, who heads the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s North American Department, reiterated her country's self-defense message at a Moscow conference on nuclear non-proliferation.

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2/post-thread comment:
I realized that Lee's: “The core outline of this deal would be to offer limited sanctions relief in exchange for significant NON-NUCLEAR disarmament measures.”
doesn't match Kim Yo Jong's: ""denuclearization measures versus lifting of sanctions" should be
3/changed into a formula of "withdrawal of hostility versus resumption of DPRK-U.S. negotiations"."
And that "elephant in the room" alludes to raising the question of nuclear disarmament, not the DPRK's nukes & ICBMs themselves that arguably are strictly meant as a deterrent.
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