Thread by @BonicMichael

Note: This👇is standard US propaganda, a vital arm of the Pentagon and US MIC to misinform the American people in the service of Washington’s strategic interests & policy:
North Korea’s Missile Tests Are Part of a Political Warfare and Blackmail Strategy - 19fortyfive.com/2022/09/north-…

2/Plain and simply, Washington has utterly failed to keep up w/ and understand the evolution of DPRK's nuclear policy. It's abject failure to factor in Kim Yo Jong's July 10, 2020 press statement and properly assimilate DPRK's updated Sept 2022 Nuclear Law

https://twitter.com/bonicmichael/status/1568113960611880965?s=46&t=b9lHtxw7KEiKXn9FBvc0Tw

3/ - which is also lost on analysts & the media - leads to completely ineffective US North Korea policy that will endlessly grope in the dark like a blind man in the noonday sun. If the article👆reflects Washington's POV then US policy will continue to

https://twitter.com/DrMarkPBarry/status/1574080540113764353?s=20&t=e8rgN1uB1iqHNDzjnJptyw

4/blunder. Wearing ideological blinders and trained up in Pentagon-speak Washington looks at Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il & Kim Jong Un and DPRK like they are a single unchanging entity. DC's perceptions, assumptions & understanding is all wrong. Let's break it down:

5/"The heart of North Korea’s strategy is this. It is executing a combination of political warfare to subvert the South and the alliance and blackmail diplomacy to extort concessions from the South the U.S., and the international community through the use of increased tensions,

6/" threats, and provocations."
This is patently false all around.
* The Panjunmon Declaration signed by Kim & Moon is testimony that DPRK wants to coexist peacefully w/ South Korea.
* As Kim Yo Jong revealed, DPRK has renounced the goal of denuclearization steps for lifting of

7/sanctions. She disclosed in full transparency to the world Kim's and Trump's conversation at the DMZ Summit:
"When the DPRK-U.S. summit talks was held in Panmunjom on June 30, 2019, Comrade Chairman defined his clear position to the U.S. President, (who preached north Korea's

8/"bright economic prospects and economic aid and asked for further denuclearisation measures as a prerequisite), that we shall never barter our system, the safety and future of our people for the likes of lifting of sanctions of no guarantee in the hope for the glamourous

9/"transformation and the realisation of our dreams of rapid economic prosperity...From that time on, we completely ruled out the issue of lifting sanctions from the agenda of negotiations".
Excerpts of Kim Yo Jong's 10 July 2020 press statement voiced: 👇

10/Yet the sharp and astute diplomacy of DPRK royalty is lost on the Neanderthal philistine knuckleheads in DC. It's like they never read or listened to KYJ's press statement, or dismissed it b/c cool chicks aren't invited into the 'boy's club'. I'm sure Kim Yo Jong would agree

11/with me that idiots and buffoons not worth DPRK's while are currently running US's North Korea policy.
"This while continuing to develop advanced warfighting capabilities to achieve the regime’s single strategic aim – domination of the peninsula under the rule of the Guerrilla

12/" Dynasty and Gulag State to ensure the regime’s survival. These three lines of effort, political warfare, blackmail diplomacy, and advanced warfighting capabilities are mutually supporting and reinforcing."
* DPRK wants to live at peace w/ South Korea in a post-Korean War era

13/but the dumb a##es in Washington living under a Cold War rock are convinced DPRK wants to reinvade the South AGAIN. Their heads are so far up their a##es all they see and smell is their own sh#t and they are CLUELESS to reality.
* As Kim Yo Jong pointed out, at the DMZ Summit

14/Kim told Trump that DPRK was abandoning the old "denuclearization steps for lifting of sanctions" and would endure under sanctions, not willing to beg for peace or economic relief. The flunkies in Washington skipped class or lost their notes, THEY DON'T KNOW THIS.

15/"The alliance should view provocations as an opportunity rather than a threat. They provide the alliance with the opportunity to demonstrate that Kim Jong Un’s political warfare and military strategy will fail. This is done first and foremost by not making any concessions."

16/One has to be an absolute imbecile to make the above statement 👆.
1) DPRK just did another standard military defense exercise but the Pavlovian media response is "PROVOCATIONS!!!" When you conduct defensive military exercises, like testing rockets or
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

17/missiles, they aren't a "provocation". David Maxwell hasn't learned this.
2) Maxwell suggests the US should see an opportunity by "not making any concessions". This well-paid dunderhead has earned an F in 'Kim Yo Jong's Art of Diplomacy'. THE WORLD KNOWS, thru her, THAT DPRK

18/is buckling down under Western sanctions, and that it has now declared to the world it is a nuclear state that even reserves the right to use preemptive nuclear strike of it perceives that its sovereignty is threatened. US does the exact same thing. I have to give Maxwell an

19/ounce of credit. I don't think he's intentionally putting forth propaganda. The complete failure to correctly understand DPRK's national & nuclear policies (which it has explained to the world) attracts Western ideological simpletons w/ lifetime subscriptions to Pentagon-Speak

20/who feed on such drivel like getting their fix of Western ideological indoctrination. The Western media echo chamber contributes to a snowball effect until Maxwell's thinking is adopted by those who make NK policy. It morphs into propaganda like a snowball rolling downhill.

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