Posted on 03/07/2016 7:28:18 PM PST by MtnClimber
North Korea is embarked on a steady, methodical, and relentless journey whose intended endpoint is a credible capability to hit New York and Washington with nuclear weapons. Pyongyang's nuclear test in January is only the latest reminder that America's policy response to nuclear proliferation in North Korea is a prolonged, and thoroughly bipartisan, failure. Our policy is a failure because our public and our leaders do not understand our adversary and his intentions. We cannot hope to cope successfully with the North Korean threat until we do. The late “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il (son of regime founder “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung; father to current “Dear Respected Marshal” Kim Jong Un) used to speak of hiding his own politics, and in fact his entire country, “inside a fog” — of deliberately concealing his government’s calculations, strengths, and vulnerabilities from foreign eyes. Yet our seemingly unending inability to fathom Pyongyang’s true objectives, and our attendant proclivity for being taken by surprise over and over again by North Korean actions, is not just a matter of succumbing to Pyongyang’s strategic deceptions, assiduous as those efforts might be.
Our “Dear Leader” is afraid of their “Dear Leader”.
Our “Dear Reader” does not inspire fear in anyone.
Our “Dear Leader” has a bottomless pit of appeasement upon which to draw. From that, he believes he has the problem solved.
0bama: Can we compromise? How about half?
Clinton. Bush. Obama. All to blame on the rise of Kim Jong Un and DPRK nuclearization. It’s been appeasement forbthe last 20 years, across all three administrations.
Yes, both Bush’s have been RINOs so not much different than the democRATs. That makes 4 consecutive leftists appeasing the NORKs.
“wishful”?
Hope for Change turned out to be just Hope.
Well, perhaps the fear of being homosexually molested...
I’d forcefully deal with China about them. Take them over, or we will neutralize them. Join what’s left with South Korea. We will deal with their threats in a forceful way. Sick and tired of dealing with the idiots threats. China knows he’s an idiot, but they use him as a pawn,
Another Jimmuh success story.
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