North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered substantial insight into his nation’s aims with its ongoing military tests, in quotes released through the nation’s state news agency KCNA.
“Our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the US and make the US rulers dare not talk about military options,” Kim was quoted as saying. He added that the effectiveness of Hwasong-12 missile is verified after two successful tests.
Though this has taken North Korea increasingly to focus on developing missiles of longer range and nuclear warheads in recent years, it’s not dissimilar to their strategy since the Korean War, which has always been to have a sufficient deterrent force to dissuade the US from attacking them.
In the past, conventional weapons and a massive retaliatory capability against South Korea was considered by North Korea to be sufficient. The current efforts seek to extend their range for retaliation, as well as the threat of such a war going nuclear.
Talk last week of the US settling for “deterrence” with North Korea instead of a military solution is, ultimately, the point of what North Korea is doing. They’re perfectly willing to be “contained” militarily, so long as they similarly keep a lid on the threat of US attacks.
“Our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the US and make the US rulers dare not talk about military options,” Orwellian for the antiwar crowd consumption. You don’t threaten the hegemon daily with nuclear annihilation and expect to survive in my book.
Ditz describes: “In the past, conventional weapons and a massive retaliatory capability against South Korea was considered by North Korea to be sufficient”
= that’s where it should have stayed. Kim Jong-Un is commiting personal and national suicide on the current path. He is severely underestimating American military capabilities and American will to crush him like a maggot.
So you are admitting the devastating pointless bullying violence of the USA, which only has to behave like a reasonable member of the “international community” and agree NOT to attack the North Koreans. It prefers to destroy AGAIN a country by pretending the great US, terrified by ONE attack in centuries, cannot gracefully end the 1950s war and stop the hype.
We don’t know what the North Koreans are saying. We don’t get their news and few of us speak Korean. All we know is what the establishment wants us to know, but that doesn’t mean we know what they said. Misinterpreting what was said is one thing, lying about what was said is another.
I think Kim got his equilibrium . when China said if N Korea was attack China and maybe some of their friends will come to N Koreas aid . The last thing any sane person wants is a conventional war with China .. This sounds peaceful enough to suit me . But who has said the NWO and the deep state is sane . Trump will have to revert back to the old Trump and not intervene in if some body does not follow the NWO