Thread by @BonicMichael

@mllesookim So then you don't understand that South Korea, which accuses DPRK of being the threat whose nukes will help it "reunify the peninsula under socialism by force", is the one "waging war by other means" w/ the US forcing DPRK to go on the nuclear defensive?

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1477884335596269570?s=20

@mllesookim Or that only security guarantees and arms control are the issues that can move US-DPRK relations forward, that Trump set the high bar in diplomacy giving North Koreans reason to hope for a better future and that DPRK has a really low regard of Biden?

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1477882934346457088?s=20

@mllesookim Or that North Koreans indeed feel safer having nuclear weapons?

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1477757075295850497?s=20

“What was your view of the [H-bomb] test?”
Juche Tower guide: “I’m feeling very proud of that because because I’m a citizen of a very powerful nation. Yeah. That’s my opinion. No more weak

@mllesookim "country we are.”
Ham Chol Hak, Coordinator: “So the choice depends on him [Trump]. If he hits the button, he is to blame, not us.”
Cathie Boyd, Director: “But we’ll all be gone.
HCH: “But it’s because of him, not because of us…We’ve been living under these sanctions &

@mllesookim "everything for so many years. We have nothing more to fear.”
“We have to defend our sovereignty, our identity.” - Yun So Hyun
The North Korean people have an identity, a socialist identity, that the West fails to comprehend in large part b/c ROK, thanks to the National Security

@mllesookim Act, refuses to acknowledge the socialism of DPRK. When the socialist way of life of your fellow Koreans in the north for 73 years has been denied, and learning about it is declared illegal by your government it's no wonder that South Koreans have no idea how North Koreans think,

@mllesookim feel and act. B/c I'm neutral I'm able to see how North Koreans view their nuclear weapons. They feel a LOT safer b/c they are protecting them against the US, whose nuclear threats & sanctions have been an endless source of trouble & hardship. While the US & ROK think they're

@mllesookim playing God, dispensing "toils and travails" holding the keys of "international isolation", in the real world the heart, mind & soul of North Koreans is reflected in Yun So Hyun's statement: “We have to defend our sovereignty, our identity.” Don't forget that it's Syngman Rhee

@mllesookim who never signed the Armistice. Is South Korea still unwilling to admit that IT failed to reunify Korean by force? Moon arming up ROK will just force Kim Jong Un's hand to follow suit. "Power for power, goodwill for goodwill." If anything is true it's that imposing sanctions

@mllesookim and international isolation aren't acts of "goodwill".
No amount of rationalization will nullify Ham Chol Hak’s, Yun So Hyun’s or the Juche Tower guide’s feelings & thoughts. They are as human as you or I. So North Koreans have lives, an identity and a real struggle but the ROK

@mllesookim propaganda machine must deny this b/c this truth/reality undermines its national interest. So ROK must dehumanize DPRKers, which is totally uncool. It’s better to humanize North Koreans. I bet that every DPRKer in this vid👇

would agree 100% w/ Ham & Yun.