Posted on 05/15/2018 11:07:53 AM PDT by TBP
Leading up to the much-anticipated meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore next month, a former North Korean official says the country is only putting on a show about getting rid of their nuclear weapons.
Thae Yong-Ho defected from North Korea in 2016, where he was the deputy ambassador to Great Britain. He said, In the end, North Korea will remain a nuclear power packaged as a non-nuclear power.
He explained that the North would oppose intrusive inspections as they would be viewed as a process of breaking down Kim Jong Uns absolute power in front of the eyes of ordinary North Koreans and elites.
The remarks from Yong-Hu come during the recent release of his memoir, in which he states, More people should realize that North Korea is desperately clinging to its nuclear program more than anything.
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It’s best to remain skeptical while hoping for the best, speaking as a Trump supporter. Yes, China did read Kim the riot act, but we can’t be sure that Kim’s just going to give up his nukes. It’s like saying we should trust Stalin to not take over Eastern Europe.
Probably the only was we can definitely say it’s safe is if Communism is fully gone from North Korea, and I don’t mean the fake fall in Russia, but a full giving up of Marxism to such an extent that they literally ban the party and literature, even have a massive bonfire and a massive firing squad against any Communists.
Pompeo even offered to protect the Kim regime from regime change, according to some reports, but Kim doesn’t seem interested in that.
I thought the whole idea of nukes was to protect the regime.
Considering Communism was literally founded to reenact Robespierre’s Reign of Terror on a more gorier scale by Karl Marx’s definition, I wouldn’t be surprised the nukes were made more for scaring neighbors than actually protecting the regime (Lenin certainly didn’t need nukes to commit all the horrors he did, or even Stalin before the USSR got the Atom Bomb), sort of like Bane using nukes in Dark Knight Rises. In fact, to be honest, I’m surprised they don’t just drop a nuke on their own people for laughs.
Kim is interested in keeping his regime in power but why should he trust the U.S. to keep him there?
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