Thread by @BonicMichael

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld The bellicosity is really overflowing in his 2022 New Year’s speech. And DPRK isn’t supposed have self-defensive nuclear deterrence? BS.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1478618588319682569?s=20

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld The last thing DPRK’s FM’s words are👇 is “buffoonish bellicosity”:
“We already clarified that we will counter the U.S. on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill.”

https://twitter.com/bonicmichael/status/1478945971845304320?s=21

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld It’s impressive pretzel logic to rationalize DPRK’s National Defense as being the so-called “threat” to ROK & the international community. It requires believing that DPRK is intent on “reunifying the KP under socialism by force”.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1425963174705057792?s=20

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld How do you rationalize away Article 9. of the DPRK’s SOCIALIST CONSTITUTION that negates the hypothesis that North Korea wants to reunify the KP by force?:

https://twitter.com/bonicmichael/status/1476391842912501763?s=21

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld South Korea’s National Security Law has apparently hoodwinked you into believing the North Korean people aren’t a sovereign nation w/ a socialist identity who have the right to defend themselves against the US-ROK alliance.

https://twitter.com/bonicmichael/status/1478882928952168450?s=21

@SungYoonLee1 @BBCWorld The only adult in the negotiating room is FM Choe Son Hui whose words inform the current diplomatic impasse:
“It will only be a waste of time to sit with the U.S. as it is not ready to feel and accept new change and new times.”
Coexisting peacefully w/ nuclear DPRK is destiny. ☮️

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