Here is yet another example of the “expert class” advocating for a freeze deal with North Korea, this time it is coming from the New York Times:
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, inspecting the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. By exploiting the dynamics of nuclear warfare and diplomacy, North Korea can dictate terms to the world’s most powerful country.
William J. Perry, a former secretary of defense, said in January, “It is my strongly held view that we don’t have it in our power today to negotiate an end to the nuclear weapons program in North Korea.”
Rather, he said, the United States should aim to “lessen the danger” by seeking an end to missile tests.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a scholar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, this week advocated something known as “double suspension.” The United States would suspend its military exercises with the South while the North would suspend its nuclear and perhaps missile tests.
There has been a broader shift toward such thinking. The ambition is no longer to roll back North Korea’s programs, but to mitigate the risk they pose day to day.
This is a tacit acknowledgment that North Korea’s preferred negotiations model — in which the United States takes steps away from the Korean Peninsula in exchange for peace — is increasingly accepted.
Even if North Korea never achieves its vision of full victory, it has shifted the conversation to its terms.
Mr. Fitzpatrick and others say that the United States should pursue such steps only if they point toward North Korean disarmament, but some consider this optimistic.
Ankit Panda, a senior editor at The Diplomat, and Vipin Narang, a professor at M.I.T., wrote this week that there were “no good options” for the United States, “only bad ones and catastrophic ones.”
Any viable deal with the North Koreans, they suggested, “would require explicit acceptance of their nuclear state status and significant rollbacks to the U.S. conventional military presence in the Northeast Asian theater, both of which are nonstarters for the United States.” [New York Times]
Wow. Reading the news, I get the idea that if President Trump gave away his entire fortune, single-handedly cured all disease, and talked ISIS into surrendering all their hostages, CNN would accuse him of giving it to the wrong people, the NY Times would blame him for unemployment among medical professionals, and Rachel Maddow would uncover his tax return from 1976.
knife Aquelee
7 years ago
Experts: Now this is what I am been talking about a “EDUCATED FOOLS. Do anyone think for one minute in their right mind, that North Korea Is going to give up any weapons of any kind, after what happened to a some other countries; Iraq Saddam Hussein, Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and a whole bunch more, not. Crap! North Korea is just getting started.
Those NUKES and their know-how are going to bring DPRK prosperity, because they are going to sell a lot of it’s technologies to you, know who? anybody that claim to be a enemy of America, deliberately. Mark my word they want South Korea and they want it badly. In their dooms-day scenario which they have already planned, will be to have their Nuke program online and fully operational, before any major conflict breaks out.
The NUKES will be their fall-back plan to get South Korea with-out winning the war Conflict, Police action, whatever spin America put on it. at the last minute when probably conventional forces would not been able to pull off a clear and decisive win. Only when North Korea got America tied in KNOT, and South korea CHAOS! China will move on Taiwan.
The only good battle-buddy America really got would be the Japanese, because China would want to give them a little pay-back from pre world war II. Japanese would fight and fight hard. Japanese men are a whole different kind of beast in every respect, beast who you want on your side, if you are in a war. South Korea’ got serious issues fighting their countrymen, I learned that while living with Katusas. America is in a real mess for years to come.
I hope I’ll want be around to watch. With all of that said, probably going to be a domino effect, Iran probably want to get in on the action with something directed at Israel. One thing I notice about Israel, They never commit real booth on the ground for America, they always got a excuse, little spying, that’s it. America give Israel more money than they give their citizens in hand.
Israel gets Billions every year in forieng aid, military aid, education free aid, and other aids to send Israelis to university around the world, With America tax dollar. America Tax dollars are building Israel’s settlement houses, and we’ve got homeless people all over this country. This country is in need for a “JUBILEE UPGRADE.” No edit box, why can’t the web administrator have a drop down edit box like YOUTUBE, YOU KNOW LIKE THE THREE LITTLE DOTS …
NOTE:sit back and watch the show and take notes, because world events are going to get interesting, probably stock up on some food;dry good can goods, seeds, solar panels, some geeses. needles, weapons and ammo for my MK11 two weapon platform.sheets of plastic. almost anything for when the boom goes up.
Flyingsword
7 years ago
How do you become a so called expert? Must be like getting ordained on-line because apparently it is meaningless.
And isn’t trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result a definition of insanity? Because all these guys are nuts with these stop the excercise thing. Has been done before and we got fuck all from nK.
Wow. Reading the news, I get the idea that if President Trump gave away his entire fortune, single-handedly cured all disease, and talked ISIS into surrendering all their hostages, CNN would accuse him of giving it to the wrong people, the NY Times would blame him for unemployment among medical professionals, and Rachel Maddow would uncover his tax return from 1976.
Experts: Now this is what I am been talking about a “EDUCATED FOOLS. Do anyone think for one minute in their right mind, that North Korea Is going to give up any weapons of any kind, after what happened to a some other countries; Iraq Saddam Hussein, Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and a whole bunch more, not. Crap! North Korea is just getting started.
Those NUKES and their know-how are going to bring DPRK prosperity, because they are going to sell a lot of it’s technologies to you, know who? anybody that claim to be a enemy of America, deliberately. Mark my word they want South Korea and they want it badly. In their dooms-day scenario which they have already planned, will be to have their Nuke program online and fully operational, before any major conflict breaks out.
The NUKES will be their fall-back plan to get South Korea with-out winning the war Conflict, Police action, whatever spin America put on it. at the last minute when probably conventional forces would not been able to pull off a clear and decisive win. Only when North Korea got America tied in KNOT, and South korea CHAOS! China will move on Taiwan.
The only good battle-buddy America really got would be the Japanese, because China would want to give them a little pay-back from pre world war II. Japanese would fight and fight hard. Japanese men are a whole different kind of beast in every respect, beast who you want on your side, if you are in a war. South Korea’ got serious issues fighting their countrymen, I learned that while living with Katusas. America is in a real mess for years to come.
I hope I’ll want be around to watch. With all of that said, probably going to be a domino effect, Iran probably want to get in on the action with something directed at Israel. One thing I notice about Israel, They never commit real booth on the ground for America, they always got a excuse, little spying, that’s it. America give Israel more money than they give their citizens in hand.
Israel gets Billions every year in forieng aid, military aid, education free aid, and other aids to send Israelis to university around the world, With America tax dollar. America Tax dollars are building Israel’s settlement houses, and we’ve got homeless people all over this country. This country is in need for a “JUBILEE UPGRADE.” No edit box, why can’t the web administrator have a drop down edit box like YOUTUBE, YOU KNOW LIKE THE THREE LITTLE DOTS …
NOTE:sit back and watch the show and take notes, because world events are going to get interesting, probably stock up on some food;dry good can goods, seeds, solar panels, some geeses. needles, weapons and ammo for my MK11 two weapon platform.sheets of plastic. almost anything for when the boom goes up.
How do you become a so called expert? Must be like getting ordained on-line because apparently it is meaningless.
And isn’t trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result a definition of insanity? Because all these guys are nuts with these stop the excercise thing. Has been done before and we got fuck all from nK.