North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has accused the US of “double-dealing” after an announced visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was canceled on the orders of President Trump on Friday.
The paper further claimed that US special forces units in Japan are staging an air drill aimed at infiltration into the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, and that this “proves that the US is hatching a criminal plot to unleash a war against the DPRK and commit a crime which deserves merciless divine punishment in case the US fails in the scenario of the DPRK’s unjust and brigandish denuclearization first.”
The US Embassy in South Korea said they had no information on the drill, which was also reported by South Korean media outlets. The military has so far declined to comment on the matter.
This sort of comment reflects considerable mistrust in North Korea, which grows substantially when the US starts backing away from diplomatic channels. North Korea has been fearing a US sneak attack for decades, and views any diplomatic struggles as a possible prelude to such a strike.
Did KJU really think the US was going to be on the up-and-up and settle things with a handshake? LOL I commented on many occasions that anyone looking for honest dealings with us was a fool- Washington will throw anyone under the bus at any time for any reason. Frankly I’m surprised NK has played nice this long.
the North Koreans were expecting a fat pile cash of cash to keep silent however when that never showed up, they are bitching cause they have been seen as not just paper tigers, but pip squeaks, pawns used by bigger players.
If the North’s missile barrage ever destroys Seoul and hundreds of thousands of lives, I’m sure any survivors will think that it was no big deal, that was just a pip squeak paper tiger attack on them.
but they won’t, as the Chinese told them, they will invade to stop that happening as the other alternative is having millions of North Koreans turn up on the Chinese border looking for refuge from the air assault by the US.
No agreement on paper is no agreement. Trump or his handlers (can’t tell which, seriously), refuse to give North Korea anything, not even a reduction of crippling sanctions, before Kim is expected to fully destroy his deterrent. This is not honest peacemaking and will not be seen as such by China or Russia. One must wonder what the President’s ability to conduct foreign policy is at all because Trump certainly would understand this.
“Trump or his handlers (can’t tell which, seriously), refuse to give North Korea anything, not even a reduction of crippling sanctions, before Kim is expected to fully destroy his deterrent”
Actually, Trump & Co. gave North Korea its demand for cancellation of major military exercises a while back.
But of course that was just a reasonable quid pro quo for what North Korea gave the US — it stopped testing its nukes and missiles and indicated a willingness for further talks toward “denuclearization.”
It was after THAT point that Trump & Co. went back to being unreasonable. The North Koreans are likely to respond in kind.
The main purpose of the exercises, are practicing seaborne invasion scenarios. When SK declined to participate, there became no troops to practice an invasion with. The US cancelled exercises that weren’t going to happen anyway. Everyone in Korea knows this, yet the cause and effect were mum in the US to give trump a sliver of peace credibility. The US is yet to give up anything real.
The last time Pompeo was in NK, he probably introduced himself, by saying, “You have the nerve to tell me that you losers haven’t got rid of your nukes yet. When I come back, they better be gone or your ass is grass, and I’m the lawnmower.”
What a charming prince he is.
We have a winner.