Saturday, April 21, 2018

Trump lauds North Korean triumph

No country that has nuclear weapons has ever been attacked by another nuclear power.  Trump lauds as a win Kim Jong Un's suspension of nuclear and missile tests.  It is in fact a victory for North Korea's resistance to the sanctions imposed on it.  North Korea is a nuclear power.  No nuclear power has ever given up its arsenal.  Why should it?  It's the nation's insurance policy against attack.  That is what deterrence doctrine is about.
Kim has held out the bait of a nuclear free Korean peninsula.  I am all for it.  But I do not believe that the U.S. will agree to that.  But with Trump.....who knows?  Desperate for wins he could gamble. - gwc




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