A lesson on causality: By maintaining the line "that we cannot accept a nuclear North Korea": 1) You are twice the idiot for thinking/believing NK will capitulate to CVID 2) Close the door to DPRK negotiating a Maximum limit to # of nukes & ICBMs 3) Leave to door open to NK
2/NK pushing for Maximum nuclear deterrence. SLBM will certainly follow. Why? B/c NK "sleeps better at night" knowing it has a nuclear deterrent that'll keep US from attacking. This translated into SECOND STRIKE CAPABILITY.
4/Are the world's biggest hypocrite. Does Washington
3/suffer from psychogenic amnesia forgetting John Bolton has advocated US doing a preemptive nuclear first strike on NK? You don't counter that w/ CVID but by developing 2nd-strike capability.
I have read the tea leaves & conclude: US-NK relations will remain stagnant to 2024.✌️
4/Didn't Sydney Seiler say: "The North Koreans can sleep better at night knowing the US & ROK are keeping the peace on the Korean Peninsula."???
RUKM??? That's utter delusion, hence dangerous. Right. NK is thinking: "Gee thanks USFK for your exercises that giphy.com/explore/tom-cr…
5/are keeping the peace on the KP. Where would we be without you."
That is absolute disconnection from reality, and that's more dangerous than NK's nukes, which are purely self-defensive. That tells me Biden Admin is singing looney tunes and that WE - US - are the biggest threat.
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"It would be easier and more favorable for the U.S. to rack its brains to make our nukes no threat to the U.S., rather than racking it to dispossess our nukes." - Kim Yo Jong
Translation: Accept us as
Kim Yo Jong Defines North Korea's Diplomatic Position
2/as a nuclear state and we will agree to:
* Setting numerical limits on our nuclear & ICBM programs to an agreed-on minimum nuclear deterrent that meets security concerns for both sides
* USFK and Mutual Defense Treaty staying where & as they are
* The rules of non-proliferation
3/Can you show me - an American citizen - the fruits of 68 years of: "We cannot accept a nuclear North Korea"? If you can't, don't worry, I'll show you👇:
"It would be easier and more favorable for the U.S. to rack its brains to make our nukes no threat to the U.S., rather than racking it to dispossess our nukes."-Kim Yo Jong @JoeBiden @POTUS @WhiteHouse @SecBlinken
Why aren't you talking to Kim Yo Jong?
@DrMarkPBarry Until Western policy accepts a nuclear DPRK, NK's nuclear deterrence is staying no matter what, b/c it's the US that poses an existential threat to DPRK thru regime change, decapitation strike & preemptive nuclear first strike.
There's a word for this: SELF-DEFENSE.
Look it up.
@DrMarkPBarry 2/This, of course, is reality, yet Western analysts & think tanks don't like REALITY. So they live in a fantasy world and delude themselves ACTUALLY BELIEVING:
*North Korea is safer w/out nuclear deterrence
* KJU would invade South Korea if accepted as a nuclear state
* Sanctions
@DrMarkPBarry 3/relief is DPRK's #1 priority (It isn't:
NORMALIZED RELATIONS W/ THE US IS NORTH KOREA'S #1 TOP PRIORITY. #2 is PEACETIME on the Korean Peninsula)
* Sanctions brought KJU to Singapore
Yeah, well, when your thesis is based on hypotheses that are factually wrong, good luck w/ it.
"Preamble: The North Korean nuclear threat is an intractable problem that will only grow in scale & complexity unless North Korea dramatically alters the program’s trajectory."
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DPRK's nukes deter the threat of US preemptive nuclear strike, decapitations strike & regime change.
2/Paper👆lacks clear understanding of reality & why North Korea believes it needs to maintain nuclear deterrence to SURVIVE. It ignores DPRK's security concerns in the same 2-dimensional thinking that permeates most of Western analysis. This is more accurate: "The existential
3/threat the US poses to North Korea by preemptive nuclear first strike (what John Bolton recommends), decapitation strike & regime change leaves DPRK w/ no choice but to err on the side of caution & maintain strong nuclear deterrence to deter the US from carrying out any of
GETTING OUTSIDE INFORMATION PAST BIG BROTHER IN NORTH KOREA warontherocks.com/2021/08/gettin…
(Is as hard as getting North Korea’s latest stylish & creative Vlogs by North Korean elite, A-team member & linguist extraordinaire Jin Hui saying "This is the truth" past Big Brother in the USA.)
2/Commentary:
“Amb. Robert King…writes that North Korea’s efforts to restrict access to outside ideas and influence “reflects Kim Jong-un’s conviction that foreign media represents a significant challenge to his totalitarian regime.”
Partly true. North Korean Vogger Un A & her
3/YouTube channel were CENSORED by Google’s CEO. And just today Jin Hui’s YouTube channel, Sonamu TV, was “terminated for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. Like Un A, Jin Hui is a member of North Korea’s elite, part of their A-team in North Korea’s outreach to foreign
[Decoded]: North Korean multilingual extraordinaire Jin Hui👇enrolled by State-run Sogwang Media Corp to spearhead English-language PR outreach via stylistic SNS Vlog. Pivoting fom Russian in 1st 2 Vlogs, Jin Hui replaces Un A, who was censored by Google, using Photo Album theme.
2/Conditioned Pavlovian Western media response: "North Korean PROPAGANDA now emulating SNS Vlogging targeting younger audience to burnish DPRK's image abroad." Look up "propaganda". "Jin Hui's Story" is a State-created Vlog, but that doesn't automatically make it propaganda.
3/By that def you'd have to concede VOA as being propaganda. But DPRK isn't a capitalist country using private enterprise & freedom of the press. A proletariat government controls production & the media, which isn't necessarily or intrinsically bad. If fact, US should emulate