Thread by @BonicMichael

"fools die for lack of wisdom" Proverbs 10:21 [NKJV]
Miscalculation👇
Why North Korea won’t abandon its nuclear weapons without a regime change
The current campaign of punitive economic and strategic pressure is necessary as long as Kim Jong Un is in power
nknews.org/pro/why-north-…

2/I've deduced US-ROK's irrational reasoning:
1) North Korea is (still) "the enemy"
2) DPRK still wants to forcefully reunify the KP under Socialism
3) USFK have therefore been "keeping the peace" since 1953
4) NK's nukes give it an advantage therefore NK must fully denuclearize

3/US-ROK has built the edifice of its North Korea strategy on sand b/c all of its premises are false. When a key premise of any theory is annulled, that theory is shot. Yet US & ROK heads don't abide by the rules of logic. Instead, cognitive distortions ("habitual errors in

4/thinking"), distrust, paranoia & two dimensional thinking rule the roost in the subjective cogs of the military industrial complex machine.

Habitual distrust, now ingrained, makes US & ROK unable to properly hear, understand & factor in DPRK's official statements. First off,

5/the notion that North Korea is still "the enemy" is Cold War thinking of the past. It is Armistice and NK wants to live at peace w/ the US & have normalized relations. Yet US & ROK are blind to everything except for NKs nukes. This tunnel vision is dangerous b/c it is what

6/leads to war. Believing someone's an "enemy" when that entity wants to coexist in ☮️ w/ you is error #1. Error #2 is the egregious mistake of thinking NK still wants to forcefully reunify the KP under Socialism. They tried it once, they won't do it again when it'll be suicide.

7/But irrationality overrules reason in all US-ROK NK strategy. It is believed fervently w/ the energy of faith, facts be damned, reminiscent of how the Church persecuted Galileo for his heliocentric model of the solar system. That belief is a cornerstone in the edifice of US-ROK

8/NK policy. This belief then fosters the next belief that there has been peace since 1953 thanks to USFK "keeping the peace". Such stupendous ignorance is truly astounding. The joint military exercises USFK do to "keep the peace" are precisely what DPRK perceives as an ever-

9/present threat to their homeland & sovereignty, and it's precisely b/c of this perception (and "perception is 90% of reality") that DPRK has time and time again realized that the only way to counter this threat is thru nuclear deterrence. Tell this to US & ROK heads & they'll

10/scoff in disbelief using some convoluted rationalization utterly detached from reality. The very actions USFK use to "keep the peace" are what have brought DPRK's nuclear program to its present stage. US & ROK unable to correctly perceiver reality.

11/The erroneous conclusion that NK want's to use its nukes to forcefully reinvade the South has made clear in the minds of US & ROK officials that the summum bonum of their NK policy/strategy is to get DPRK to fully denuclearize. FFVD. CVID. The "rogue state" must learn to

12/"follow the rules" and be "defanged" so that it won't be able to carry out its nefarious intent - "forcefully reunifying the KP under Socialism". Now there are two sides in negotiations but don't say that to US & ROK heads. What DPRK says doesn't matter to them, is irrelevant.

13/They "know who they're dealing with" etc. etc.. As they have it "all figured out", it's so simple: get DPRK to fully denuclearize. Then sanctions will be lifted followed by normalization yada yada yada. The only problem is that the skewed thinking underlying US-ROK NK strategy

14/is detached from reality, disconnected from the concrete tangible world of actuality. There is nothing more dangerous than a superpower that becomes unhinged thru the delusions of its own making. Let's look at realty:
1) DPRK wants to achieve ☮️ on the KP, have normalized

15/relations w/ all countries, values friendship & follows the principle of "power for power, goodwill for goodwill". This is beyond the compression of US-ROK heads, which boggles the mind, for how can top officials be such goddam effing idiots while being paid 6 figures?
2) Ask

16/any DPRK official - Kim Yo Jong, Choe Son Hui...- and they'll tell you flat out. I don't know what exactly they'd say but I think it'd be to the effect of: "We want to reunify peacefully going by Kim Il Sung's Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo where North & South respect

17/one another's systems. We've already said and it's in our Constitution that Socialism is to be restricted to the North. So no, we have no intent of ever forcefully reinvading the South to bring the KP under Socialism." The US & ROK would just say: "We don't believe you. Nya

18/nya nya nya nya" & then stick their tongues out (metaphorically speaking).
3) USFK "keeping the peace" shows the sheer stupidity behind their thinking. They must not understand that when a Peace Treaty is ratified, wartime officially ends, all sides feel secure, both sides

19/no longer perceive the other as a threat and the need for muscle-flexing becomes obsolete b/c the Peace Treaty, the common ground of both parties, guarantees security as long as all conditions are met. There is no legal "peace" under Armistice. US & ROK have such a sophomoric

20/understanding of peace, it's really astounding how their strategists can be such idiots. "Keeping the peace" to them means preventing DPRK from trying to reinvade the South (which it doesn't even want to do). Go figure. In this material world the path of error is a highway.

21/And lastly, if you read DPRK official statements, it's clear that their nuclear program is to build nuclear deterrence to keep the US from carrying thru on any of it's threats - preemptive nuclear first strike, decapitation strike or regime change. The above piece👆is depraved

22/for asserting that "North Korea won’t abandon its nuclear weapons w/out a regime change". The truth is that US & ROK have their heads so far up their a##es that all they see, hear & smell is their own sh#t. They're so single-mindedly convinced that FFVD/CVID is "the solution"

23/or panacea to all things Korean Peninsula that they've come to the conclusion that since KJU is keeping DPRK's nukes, the only way to get to FFVD/CVID is thru regime change. This dangerous tunnel vision is blind to the reality that an attempted regime change, if perceived by

24/DPRK, could lead to a preemptive nuclear strike on their part. W/out regard to every sovereign nation's right to defend itself, US & ROK seem to think they can bend or break the rules, perhaps b/c it's "their game", so they can do whatever they want. They misinterpret DPRK

25/exercising its right to defend itself against NUCLEAR THREATS made by the US (what - does the US have the right to threaten NK w/ preemptive nuclear first strike but NK doesn't have the right to use nuclear deterrence to defend itself?) as a "threat" to US & ROK homelands.

26/Such naiveté, misperception, irrationality, bankruptcy in critical analysis & thinking, cognitive distortion & disconnection from reality. The erroneous thinking imbuing 👆article might lead the world to the precipitous edge of the abyss. Regime change IS the path of error. ✌️

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