Will Kim Attack The ROK Before Biden Leaves Office?

[Rightguide]

Sorry you don't like reality. Kim didn't change anything he was doing for longer than a few months. But hey, at least he was able to successfully test missiles that can hit California .. good job 45!

Donald Trump’s North Korea Gambit: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next​

He did a better job than Obama:

Trump, the paradoxical “peacemaker” in the nuclear-heavy Peninsula​

As is often the case with Trump, there is a measure of truth to his claims. He has been able to position himself advantageously as a peacemaker, and even dream of receiving a Nobel peace prize, like Obama before him. In 2019, he said that he had been nominated by Japan’s then Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and endorsed for the prize by South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They praised Trump’s initiative to enter into direct dialogue and hold summits with Kim, which was undeniably daring and unexpected. The June 2018 meeting in Singapore between the two leaders did certainly make an impact, seeming to be a remarkable and promising event, inasmuch as it put an end to the escalating verbal conflict that was set off in summer 2017. That was when Trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury,” stating that his general staff did not rule out taking military action against North Korea.

However, as innovative it may have seemed at the time, “summit diplomacy” was no more effective than previous strategies. This includes the Obama administration’s “strategic patience,” which involved waiting for the regime to collapse under increased sanctions to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible de-nuclearization (CVID). While Trump avoided conflict with North Korea, he was not able to prevent that after carrying out six nuclear tests and many ballistic missile launches, in 2017, North Korea positions itself as a de facto nuclear power and puts forward credible deterrence capabilities. Not only are they a very real and persistent threat for the United States, which is within range of its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), but also for the US’ two closest allies, South Korea and Japan.

https://theconversation.com/did-donald-trump-ease-tensions-with-north-korea-152505

 

[ll74]

He did a better job than Obama:

Trump, the paradoxical “peacemaker” in the nuclear-heavy Peninsula​

As is often the case with Trump, there is a measure of truth to his claims. He has been able to position himself advantageously as a peacemaker, and even dream of receiving a Nobel peace prize, like Obama before him. In 2019, he said that he had been nominated by Japan’s then Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and endorsed for the prize by South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They praised Trump’s initiative to enter into direct dialogue and hold summits with Kim, which was undeniably daring and unexpected. The June 2018 meeting in Singapore between the two leaders did certainly make an impact, seeming to be a remarkable and promising event, inasmuch as it put an end to the escalating verbal conflict that was set off in summer 2017. That was when Trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury,” stating that his general staff did not rule out taking military action against North Korea.

However, as innovative it may have seemed at the time, “summit diplomacy” was no more effective than previous strategies. This includes the Obama administration’s “strategic patience,” which involved waiting for the regime to collapse under increased sanctions to achieve complete, verifiable and irreversible de-nuclearization (CVID). While Trump avoided conflict with North Korea, he was not able to prevent that after carrying out six nuclear tests and many ballistic missile launches, in 2017, North Korea positions itself as a de facto nuclear power and puts forward credible deterrence capabilities. Not only are they a very real and persistent threat for the United States, which is within range of its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), but also for the US’ two closest allies, South Korea and Japan.

https://theconversation.com/did-donald-trump-ease-tensions-with-north-korea-152505

That's debatable. But certainly the bad shit that Kim has done and continues to do have not been prevented by any President. And our current President is no outlier, by any stretch.

 

[Rightguide]

That's debatable. But certainly the bad shit that Kim has done and continues to do have not been prevented by any President. And our current President is no outlier, by any stretch.

The only thing that deters Kim is the certainty that his country will cease to exist if he in fact launches an attack against the US. However, that certainty would be based on Kim's assessment of the fortitude of the sitting President. Joe Biden presents little of that fortitude.

 

[jomar]

Nobody died at Watergate.......unlike "fast and furious".......

Are you campaigning to be King of non sequiturs?

 

[wizzard426]

Are you campaigning to be King of non sequiturs?

Does it bother you that Eric Holder never answered a congressional subpoena to answer questions about his crimes? What if Nixon had just blown that off?

Are you campaigning to be the king of gaslighting?

 

[ll74]

The only thing that deters Kim is the certainty that his country will cease to exist if he in fact launches an attack against the US. However, that certainty would be based on Kim's assessment of the fortitude of the sitting President. Joe Biden presents little of that fortitude.

Lol, yes, your BDS is evident on this topic as well.

 

[jomar]

Does it bother you that Eric Holder never answered a congressional subpoena to answer questions about his crimes? What if Nixon had just blown that off?

You’re off topic

Are you campaigning to be the king of gaslighting?

You’re not making any sense

 

[Rightguide]

Lol, yes, your BDS is evident on this topic as well.

He is the weakest most incompetent President in history.

 

[ll74]

He is the weakest most incompetent President in history.

Thanks for confirming.

 

[YDB95]

It’s in one of Bob Woodward’s, a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the the duo who uncovered the Nixon watergate scandal, books on the trump presidency, and if I recall correctly, he does name names. He’s written books on each president since Nixon, I think.

Not only that, but he didn't just "consider" doing it, he had the order set to go.