RE: What A Surprise
July 1, 2018 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2018 at 12:37 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 1, 2018 at 10:27 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Wouldn't this have happened whether or not we played the game with NK?
What has the Trump given away since the summit other than war games that only escalated tensions?
I'm not backing Trump, but other than some stupid rhetoric (which Kim loves), what harm had been done?
Actually, probably not.
North Korea has achieved minimum deterrence capability early this year. Kim could sit tight for a little while. Additional nuclear capability is at this point merely an optional bonus.
He is doing this now probably because of the opening afforded by the trade war between the US and China, and the escalating tension in the South China Sea. This gave him new confidence that China will strongly back him if he told trump to eat shit.
He is probably also taking advantage of the fact that trump’s trade war with virtually all of america’s Traditional allies, and particularly the expected disaester at the upcoming NATO summit, would make it impossible for trump to rally anyone other than japan to his cause in threatening NK. South Korea certainly won’t participate.
