President Trump spent a good part of his UN General Assembly speech threatening North Korea, declaring that the US may “have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.” While this was seen largely as an attempt to pressure the UN to do more against North Korea, the impact will likely be felt far beyond the general assembly.
Such threats, being repeatedly regularly, must necessarily be seen by North Korean officials as vindication of their development of a nuclear arsenal. They’ve long seen a retaliatory capability as the key to preventing a US attack, and President Trump’s constant talk of launching such an attack if anything may be pushing North Korea to expand that arsenal.
Indeed, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has made clear his goal is to have a defensive capability that totally precludes the possibility of an American attack. Nothing Trump said gave the impression that there was an alternate route to prevent being attacked by the US.
Least of all diplomacy. President Trump railed at a “twisted regime” and declared Kim “suicidal.” He’s spurned all pushes by the international community to consider diplomacy with North Korea, and after today it seems even less likely the US and North Korea might end up at the negotiating table.
This is a problem which is only mounting as the tensions grow, as US officials continue to talk up the idea that the time for diplomacy has passed, and North Korea sees itself increasingly dependent on mutually assured destruction to keep the US threats from turning into outright war.
NoKo sees what happens to non-nuclear nations who don’t knuckle under to US demands, and KJU is doing the most logical thing in the world- making NoKo such a dangerous target no one wants to mess with his country. Trump’s remarks all but guarantee NoKo will ramp up its nuclear capabilities very quickly.
They are making a fatal mistake. The United States is resolved to crush them by force. You will understand this when the bombs drop.
The bombs dropping will also be a fatal mistake,
I feel sorry for the Americans in South Korea; they will die for a madman in Washington DC.
The USA is the terrorist here,
Und willst du nicht mein bruder sein so hau ich dir den schaedel ein. That is now our foreing policy.
The problem with people like Trump is the guy has lived in a bubble his whole life and has essentially been a dictator (in the business world) who always gets his way and thinks he can just bully anyone around and they will cave in. He is grossly miscalculating but a narcissists like him thinks he is a genius and that any action he takes will not come with consequences. god help us.
I agree 100%. Indeed, the worst problem with people like Trump is he’s lived in a bubble his entire life and has essentially been a dictator (in the business world) who always gotten his way and thinks he can just bully anyone around and they’ll cave in. In this case, however, he’s grossly miscalculating, bug a narcissist like him thinks he’s a genius and any action he takes won’t come with consequences.
Unfortunately, he’s putting all of humanity in serious jeopardy with his childish, idiotic threats to countries such as the DPRK. Only adult-like negotiations with the DPRK’s leadership will solve this crisis .. After all, the DPRK hasn’t invaded its southern neighbor since 1950, and even that was provoked by both the US and S. Korean dictator Syngman Rhee.