North Korea Claims “Threatening, Coercive and Barbarian Tactics” By the US Will Not Work

You have to love the hypocrisy of this statement from North Korea in regards to their frustration with the Trump administration for not dropping sanctions for little to nothing in return:

“These acts by the U.S. apparently came from a medieval-era way of thinking that only threatening, coercive and barbarian tactics could enhance its negotiating leverage,” DPRK Today, a state-sponsored website, said Monday, also complaining about recent military exercises with Japan involving nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and bombers. Those “illogical” tactics won’t work, it said.  [Washington Post]

This statement is coming from the regime that has launched countless threats, provocations, and attacks over to the decades against South Korea and the US.  Here is what the ROK government has to say:

In Seoul, the government is wary of criticizing the United States directly. But behind the scenes there is a real sense that Washington needs to move the needle forward by building trust with the North.

So why is it always that the US need to build trust with North Korea?  The Kim regime are the ones that have broken multiple agreements.  The onus is on them to build trust with the United States not the other way around.  The easiest way to build trust is by disclosing their nuclear sites and allow inspectors to begin to dismantle them.  If this happens I have no doubt the Trump administration will drop sanctions.

The fact that they Kim regime are not doing this shows they have no desire to denuclearize.  They clearly believe that they can have it both ways by having sanctions dropped and then pretend to denuclearize.  By the time anyone catches on to the fact that they don’t plan to denuclearize, they will have had an influx of cash and moved so far forward on their confederation strategy with the Moon administration in South Korea that any reimplementing of sanctions will be too late.