Continuing to make statements that conflict with what everyone else in the administration is saying, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today downplayed the idea of a North Korean war starting any time soon, insisting Americans should “sleep well at night” knowing the situation is well in hand.
This couldn’t be further from the narrative coming out of everyone else, with President Trump threatening “fire and fury” yesterday, and as Defense Secretary James Mattis talked about the total destruction of the North Korean people earlier today.
Tillerson did, at least, appear aware that what he’s saying contradicts what everyone else says, and insisted that the reason President Trump’s talk on North Korea was composed exclusively of threats of a massive war is because the administration believes that North Korea “doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic language.”
President Trump, however, has repeatedly insisted diplomacy in general is a failed policy, and there really hasn’t been an example of the Trump Administration even approaching North Korea with diplomacy in mind, let alone an example of it failing.
So North Korea “doesn’t seem to understand diplomatic language”. At what point has our diplomatic language contained anything but ultimatums?
In general, “diplomacy” is Orwellian American NewSpeak for “do whatever we tell you to do.”
To Jason: Trump said that it would be his honor to talk to the President of North Korea. As far as I remember, shock waves went fhrough “balanced” Neoconia. The fear that a war, any war may actually end — is a real nightmare for our “stable” elites that are eager to start nuclear war. Even cool Kissinger is disturbed by the prospect of ISIS losing, and rebels going over to Government side.
The resistance to peace breaking out is a remarkable pathology among the leadership class. It’s easy to understand the motivation for the defense industry — financial; and for the military leadership — careerist; and for the political class — fear of “the other” exploited to unite the country behind the patriotic protection by the govt. And I suppose that a large segment of the population actually subconsciously supports war, human nature carrying forward the “fight” instinct — as in “fight or flight” — from a more primitive time.
Still, I find it a bit surprising that the countervailing instinct for cooperation, so broadly and overtly expressed in the desire for peace, is not a more powerful force.
NK announced that she’s not going to use nuclear weapon on any country except USA.
When did they announce that? Last week, the North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong-ho specified that in the event of an attack on the North they would use nuclear weapons on the US _and its allies in said attack_.
Check this out as your corporatist media is never reporting anything that makes you feel awkward.
DPRK says no intention to use nuke weapons against any country except U.S. – People’s Daily Online
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0807/c90777-9252080.html
You might want to read the story you’re linking to:
“We have no intention to use nuclear weapons or threaten with nuclear weapons against any other country except the U.S., unless it joins action of the U.S. against DPRK”
In other words, exactly what I said — the US _and_ any countries allied with it in an attack on the North.