So Kim is backing down - again

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NK after doing the 'usual' with the US through this President, faced a wall, and threats, and a possible showdown, to the extent China's sending signals they'd take care of him themselves, coz, you know, the US is their biggest customer after all...

So, Kim, is calling Trump a lunatic, signaling to his people why he's gonna ease down on his country's habitual extortion methods.

ta da! Trump wins again.
 
It's harvest season. The NK military is a large chunk of the population. They are needed to help harvest crops come fall. This is when Korean peninsula saber rattling season traditionally fades regardless of who's butt warms the chair in the oval office. They need to eat.

It's been a bumper crop of saber rattles for NK this season. That, more than the annual ebb and flow, sets the tone for next spring when the new season kicks off.
 
It's harvest season. The NK military is a large chunk of the population. They are needed to help harvest crops come fall. This is when Korean peninsula saber rattling season traditionally fades regardless of who's butt warms the chair in the oval office. They need to eat.

It's been a bumper crop of saber rattles for NK this season. That, more than the annual ebb and flow, sets the tone for next spring when the new season kicks off.

Well. Point being I suppose, that will be the only harvest they'll collect on their works this year ;)

Thanks to Trump.

They'd have harvest a couple of billion dollars had it been Hillary, or more if da Burn!
 
I thought you meant kim gordon and i found that really hard to believe
 
Well. Point being I suppose, that will be the only harvest they'll collect on their works this year ;)

Thanks to Trump.

They'd have harvest a couple of billion dollars had it been Hillary, or more if da Burn!

They aren't blowing up any reactors this year.
 
Now Tromp will have to get his war on elsewhere. Iran? Syria? Venezuela? Congoi?
 
Well. Point being I suppose, that will be the only harvest they'll collect on their works this year
The major point being that the decades long ebb and flow in accordance with the season should be ignored. When you know the cycle it's easier to filter out the background noise. You need to look at the long term implications year to year. We basically played this year using the Obama era hand of implementing new sanctions to encourage an end to NK's nuclear program. Bill Clinton, and later Bush pursued the aid in exchange for promises of abandoning a nuclear program. Obama abandoned that approach early in his administration. The major difference between Trump and Obama on NK is the nature of the rhetoric layered on top of similar actions.

Did that extra rhetoric help? Who knows. At this point nothing has really changed on the Korean peninsula in response to our recent actions. North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs are well ahead of where we thought they were in January and they aren't abandoning them. NK is now slowing rhetoric and sending troops out to harvest. Harvest is routine background noise not a change. We need to leave time to let sanctions work to see what effects they have. Only then we can look back and assess whether this year's actions made things better.
 
The major point being that the decades long ebb and flow in accordance with the season should be ignored. When you know the cycle it's easier to filter out the background noise. You need to look at the long term implications year to year. We basically played this year using the Obama era hand of implementing new sanctions to encourage an end to NK's nuclear program. Bill Clinton, and later Bush pursued the aid in exchange for promises of abandoning a nuclear program. Obama abandoned that approach early in his administration. The major difference between Trump and Obama on NK is the nature of the rhetoric layered on top of similar actions.

Did that extra rhetoric help? Who knows. At this point nothing has really changed on the Korean peninsula in response to our recent actions. North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs are well ahead of where we thought they were in January and they aren't abandoning them. NK is now slowing rhetoric and sending troops out to harvest. Harvest is routine background noise not a change. We need to leave time to let sanctions work to see what effects they have. Only then we can look back and assess whether this year's actions made things better.

The Clinton deal never went thru anyway.

And yes, i was never worried about it. You missed my earlier posts. which makes you a newbie who may not be an Alt, that is rare.

Yes, it helped in a sense that, with all the pressure NK could do before to get money, this time, the US gave them the finger - with a "lunatic" Trump warning.
 
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