“South Korea's Defense Minister Suh Wook on Friday publicly said his troops have the capabilities to "accurately & swiftly" strike the origin of DPRK's missile firing as well as command & support facilities upon clear signs of a launch toward South Korea.” xinhuanet.com/english/asiapa…
That provoked Kim Yo Jong's ire b/c Suh Wook served under Moon Jae In (who promoted Sunshine Policy), & his remarks, tho fair and not necessarily escalatory, indicate ROK's in no mood to improve ROK-DPRK relations. But it won't be DPRK who launches first.
but since words matter, he should know that when you drop a pebble into a pond it makes ripples. His statement elicited these words from DPRK's Secretary of WPK Central Committee Pak Jong Chon: "“If the south Korean army
"engages in a dangerous military action as a preemptive strike against the DPRK, our army will mercilessly direct all its military force into destroying major targets in Seoul and the south Korean army.”
So yeah we get it: If ROK sees clear signs that DPRK
is preparing to launch a missile towards ROK it has "the capabilities to "accurately & swiftly" strike the origin of DPRK's missile firing". 1) The last think DPRK is going to do is launch a missile into ROK, but ROK & Washington have their heads so far up their a##es they
firmly believe that DPRK's endgame is reunifying the Korean Peninsula by force under socialism. While US & ROK Intelligence is living under the rock of Cold War mentality keeping their eyes peeled for DPRK's reattempt at reinvading South Korea, DPRK is boldly going where no
socialist country has gone before: Seeking ☮️ & normalized relations w/ the international community as a nuclear state. This reality tho torpedoes the US-ROK hardline policy against a DPRK that is just using nuclear deterrence to survive by deterring the US from following thru on
its threats of nuclear first strike, decapitation strike & regime change. Coexisting peacefully w/ a nuclear DPRK that slams the brakes on its nuclear & ICBM programs (the double moratorium officially inked in a US-DPRK agreement) goes against 69 @SecBlinken @DeptofDefense
years of US North Korea policy. It's 2022. I'd say it's time for a change. The times have changed. DPRK is 2+ years into its "new road" Kim Jong Un alluded to in his 2020 New Year's Day Address where (IMO) CVID/FFVD are no longer negotiable.
If Article 9 of DPRK's constitution clearly states that the "DPRK shall strive to achieve the complete victory of socialism in the northern half of Korea", how can anyone believe that DPRK still wants to "absorb South Korea" in a military invasion to bring the KP under socialism?
What's happening is that the 'foot' of REALITY isn't fitting the 'shoe' of the Western narrative or political agenda, and the media then shoehorns REALITY into this false narrative which many in Washington, the Pentagon & Yoon's Admin fervently believe. We're living in a
political world where the truth becomes obscured by a misguided US-ROK agenda that wrongly thinks DPRK is bent on forcefully reunifying the KP, just as the media misguidedly believes that Putin is bent on "rebuilding the Russian Empire". No, Putin won't attack any NATO country
b/c that triggers Article 5 & things could quickly turn into WW3 which Putin doesn't want. No, DPRK doesn't want a Korean War 2.0 (The Nuclear Sequel) b/c it's bad for DPRK's economy, people & country. Kim Jong Un & Putin aren't the 'madmen', rather they are contending w/ Western
forces that have lost all reason. 2) Suh Wook's statement was a fair statement:
"We're letting you know DPRK that if we see you're about to launch towards us, we can preemptively take out your missile launching site."
So was Pak Jong Chon's: "Loud and clear ROK. Just know that if
you do that, "our army will mercilessly direct all its military force into destroying major targets in Seoul and the south Korean army".
Time and time again DPRK has said that not will not strike first & it has a No First Use policy:
There should be an inter-Korean summit @TheBlueHouseENG
where top officials from both sides make clear once and for all that the DPRK - today - has no intention of reinvading ROK, no plans or aspirations to reunify the KP by force under socialism. The main roadblock to progress
b/t South Korea & DPRK is the fact this hasn't been clear up. It is clearly the leftover political flotsam & jetsam of the origin Korean War itself. Seoul thinks DPRK wants to revisit it; DPRK has made it water forever under the bridge. This issue needs clarity yesterday.✌️
@SecBlinken
Can Washington frame a ☮️ Agreement wherein the DPRK & US set aside the old Cold War mentality & enmity, learn to coexist peacefully & cooperate (eg US getting contracts to mine DPRK rare earth minerals) and together start a new chapter of ☮️on the Korean Peninsula?
@SecBlinken
I think it can. It's better if we BEFRIEND the DPRK (by taking a chance on a Peace agreement - see thread) and not take Yoon's route of torpedoing inter-Korean progress. In peacetime US and DPRK could open up channels of trade/partnership in agriculture, rare earth
@SecBlinken
minerals, solar panels and luxury goods. I'm not the only person who'd like to buy a pair of boots of DPRK leather, clothes & other items. There'd be a cross-flow of cultural infusion - DPRK to US and US to DPRK if we and DPRK become friendly partners. If we take the
North Korea warns of nuclear response if South provokes it
[Kim Yo Jong] berated South Korea for touting preemptive strike capabilities against the North, saying her country’s nuclear forces would annihilate the South’s conventional forces if provoked abcn.ws/36PBQVB
2/"She stressed that North Korea doesn’t want another war on the Korean Peninsula but warned it would retaliate with its nuclear forces if the South opts for preemptive strikes or other attacks, which would leave the South’s military “little short of total destruction and ruin.”
3/"“In case (South Korea) opts for military confrontation with us, our nuclear combat force will have to inevitably carry out its duty … a dreadful attack will be launched and the (South Korean) army will have to face a miserable fate little short of total destruction and ruin,”
@NoLieWithBTC@nytimes Lol. I’d say the US Democratic Party lead by climate alarmist Green New Deal fanatics killing US domestic oil and natural gas production pushing for a fossil fuel-free America own that mantle. HUNTER’S LAPTOP IS REAL. “10 to H for the big guy”.
@NoLieWithBTC@nytimes But Biden’s doing a good job as POTUS right? 👍😉
80 million Democrats ACTUALLY BELIEVE this person is protecting USA’s national interest & defending our borders, people & sovereignty. The world’s at the brink b/c of American weakness projected by Biden.
The "Woke" Democrats' agenda is Orwellian Newspeak in action: Changing the language by removing words gives gov't the power to control how people think. Welcome to 1984:
George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5
The Principles and Purpose of Newspeak in 1984 llceranglais.fr/language-in-19…
2/“Orwell’s ideas about language:
George Orwell thought that language was a powerful tool. The message that Orwell wanted to send in 1984 is that thought and language are inter-connected and interact in numerous ways. For Orwell, language is the basis of human thought because it
3/"structures and shapes the way we think and the way we see the world. It can also limit the ideas that we are capable of formulating and expressing.
According to Orwell, totalitarian regimes can use language to limit and restrict certain ideas : “If thoughts can corrupt
Russia denies killings in Bucha, says images of bodies ‘another production’ by Kyiv
"Moscow maintains residents didn't 'suffer any violent actions' and that everyone 'had opportunity to freely leave'; Ukrainian prosecutors say 410 corpses recovered so far" timesofisrael.com/russia-denies-…
2/"Russia’s defense ministry said Sunday that its forces did not kill civilians in Bucha, a town outside Ukraine’s capital Kyiv that was recently retaken by Ukrainian soldiers from Moscow’s troops.
“During the time this settlement was under the control of Russian armed forces,
3/"not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions,” the ministry said in a statement, saying Russia’s military delivered 452 tons of humanitarian aid to civilians there…”
"Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following statement Saturday:
2/"The south Korean Defence Minister on April 1 revealed his confrontation hysteria with the DPRK, talking about "preemptive strike" on it.
The senseless and scum-like guy dare mentioned the "preemptive strike" at a nuclear weapons state, in his senseless bluster which will never
3/"be beneficial to south Korea, either.
He is a confrontation maniac engrossed in the mindset of confrontation with his fellow countrymen in the north.
His reckless and intemperate rhetoric about the "preemptive strike" has further worsened the inter-Korean relations and the