Both US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and North Korea seem to agree that last week’s US attack on Syria was about ongoing US hostility toward North Korea, though the message that Tillerson believes was conveyed appears to be starkly different from what North Korea learned.
Tillerson insisted the attack on Syria proved that every time a nation breaks “international norms,” the United States will carry out a response “at some point,” and that North Korea needs to accept US demands for Korean denuclearization to avoid a similar fate.
North Korea’s foreign ministry, on the other hand, said the attack showed them the US was recklessly aggressive toward its enemies, and if anything proved to them that they need to retain a nuclear arsenal as a defensive and deterrent force against a future US attack.
It’s not hard to see why North Korea would have learned that, as Libya’s disarmament was followed in less than a decade by US-imposed regime change, and Syria’s 2013 agreement to scrap its chemical arsenal was followed by years of escalating US moves aiming to remove their government from power, culminating in last week’s attack. It is unsurprising, in that context, that North Korea would see giving in to US calls for unilateral disarmament as merely a prelude to a US attack.
Crazy. Kill people in Syria as a warning we will kill people in North Korea if you don’t do as we say.
They kill the chicken to scare the monkey. Its witch doctor policy…
Plz explain…..
What a joke! I am on the left (despise Hilary, love Bernie), but I listen to a lot of right wing radio……and I listen very carefully with an open mind to see where I might possibly agree with what they may be saying…of course I disagree far more than I agree….but it’s surprising how many times I found common ground. Savage in particular represents the anti-war right (did you know there was an anti-war right?). I am anti-war left. …anyway Michael Savage, Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan have all said (correctly IMO) that this was a false flag…
However Savage makes a really good point, …and he has been an ardent Trump supporter…. He says that this was the equivalent of Bill Clinton attacking and aspirin factory. Ouch!! ROFL
And this is what Trumps supporters are saying?
And Iran.