North Korea says that they are under the impression that the United States declared war on them over the weekend. This was based on a Saturday night Tweet, in which President Trump said of North Korea “they won’t be around much longer!”
North Korea took this particularly seriously as a came less than a week after Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea during his address at the UN General Assembly. The White House claimed that believing war as declared was “absurd.”
Yet it’s the latest in a long line of “misunderstandings” centering on the administration’s inconsistent Twitter policy. Officials have long maintained that Trump’s Tweets are official statements, but have also insisted certain Trump Tweets, particularly rants made at odd hours, don’t represent the government’s policies.
This level of confusion about where the administration stands is getting shockingly common, as President Trump threatens wars over Twitter seemingly several times a week, and spends much of the rest of the time deriding the TV ratings of whoever he’s decided are his internal enemies at any given time.
It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, if US analysts don’t know what US policy is, that North Korea might similarly not be totally clear about how at war the US is with them. This is potentially much more serious, however, in the case of a nuclear war.
After all, the US is conducting regular “show of force” attacks near North Korea’s borders, and North Korea now says, believing that Trump’s threats are sincere, they may attempt to shoot down attacking US warplanes. That the warplanes aren’t meant to be part of the Twitter narrative may mean less and less in the event of a shooting war.
Let’s remind ourselves that the potus just stood up in U.N. and threatened N.K with total annihilation some 60 years after US genocided 30% of its population and denied them a peace treaty ever since.
Language of impotence since US can’t do sh*t because N.K now has THE deterrent and the ability to retaliate in kind. Don’t be surprised if they do take down these provocations.
What does Trump have to lose? He’s game.
I suspect he has more to lose by NOT doing what his puppetmasters have told him to do. There appears to have been somewhat of a transformation and I suspect stern death threats against him, his family, etc. were all to blame.
Or, maybe, he meant the 95% of what he said on the campaign trail that was exactly opposite of the 5% non-interventionist stuff.
Not that secret death threats is exactly implausible but I have never found the secret death threat scenario to be all that believable. Then again, Ross Perot.
Look for an “accident” to happen somewhere, which will quickly get out of control. It’a a “make my day” moment. Trump probably figures he has nothing to lose and everything to gain by war on the Korean peninsula. S Korea is just “collateral damage”.
As are the 30,000+ US troops stationed along the DMZ.
They are what you call the “trip wire”.
I’d call them the first to die.
You’re in for a big surprise.
“Officials have long maintained that Trump’s Tweets are official statements, but have also insisted certain Trump Tweets, particularly rants made at odd hours, don’t represent the government’s policies.”
So, Trump’s tweets are official, except when they’re embarrassing, and then they’re not. You can’t have it both ways. If the “Officials” want to “explain away Trump’s “odd hour” tweets then take his phucking phone away from him. I thought having Kelly in Trump’s back pocket would muzzle him some what. Even when he’s warned not to kick the bees nest, he does it anyway.
Fool.
S. Korea is still at war with N. Korea.
Economic sanctions in today’s world (enforced with banking restrictions, etc.) are the equivalent of a blockade and are INDEED an ACT OF WAR. So Kim is absolutely correct – though technically the US Congress will never have the balls or the principles to debate and vote on an actual declaration of war, even after the bombs have begun falling. Declaring war is so 1940s.
Always have been at war. It’s just unfinished business.
It’s like a one of those WWE ‘rasslin’ events. I supposed I’ll shut up and go watch Oww My Balls and drink my Brawndo®, The thirst mutilator…