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Exactly the wrong approach for the US to take.
Kinda' give ya' a warm and fuzzy feeling, don't it?
Great idea, Frenchie...save their face, lose ours.....I see it now....more rice for less threats.
Maybe he can get a paper cut and apply for another Purple Heart.
hummmm! just how many years, how many administrations have been looking for this so called “off ramp?”
The only difference, as I see it, is that the Republicans have insisted on multi-lateral dealing with NK - that is, including other threatened nations of the region.
The Democrats have always wanted bi-lateral - NK/USA.
I never have understood the pros and cons of using one over the other - other than the democrats always have a hidden agenda floating around that I would probably not like.
‘off-ramp’
Is this another cutsie phrase from zeros admin? They have so many.
Douche bags everywhere are thrilled that kerry has got the situation firmly under control.
Kerry figures the “crisis” can be “settled” with about $100 million in additional aid to Kim and his goons. Soon Kerry will calm the North Korean tantrum with cash. In case anyone has forgotten, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are long gone. We are now governed by politically correct agitated wimps. Pity the world.
They’re going to give the fat boy a candy bar to get him to shut up.
This line right here is a PIPE DREAM. Have they honored any obligations or kept their word (all this while they were developing a nuke program despite publicly saying they would abandon), in the last 60 years of tyranny and shakedowns? What makes you think they will "adhere to its international obligations"? How absolutely FOOLISH!!!! Would you expect a puppy to "adhere to not peeing on the floor" before being house broken? You can wish and wish and wish, but the puppy would still do what it would do, true to its nature.
At this high level of diplomacy, it is amazing how naive they can become, how susceptible to nuclear blackmail and appeasement. It just turns my stomach because I know the script in advance, I know the press releases down to the worlds, which the State Department will release after claiming "victory" and a ratchet down of tensions. DPRK will be bought off until the next round of escalation and using that which we buy them off, they will only increase their arsenal more behind out backs. Absolutely ZERO CREDIBLITY.
Just write him a check and he’ll shut up. Until he runs out of money again.
It’s a protection racket.
Diplomatic translation: This is a concession pure and simple. Kerry is going to reward NK for its bellicose behavior and rhetoric. We can expect more rewards in the form of aid and other tributes. And when you reward something, you get more of it.
Maybe Kerry will let Kim feel the rice in his ass. That’s about these character’s speed.
DIPLOMATIC INCENTIVES??!!! Ugh.
Imagine this French Surrender Monkey naked in a room with the boy dictator. What will he say when he comes out of the room? What will the boy dictator say?
John Kerry is the “new sailor in town”.
Just write rhem another check, John. How many times are we going to fall for this “routine”...they threaten and we give them something for stopping the “noise”. We keep teaching them this works...time for some tough love!
Anyone ever see the movie “Dragonheart”? Well, in that one, Dennis Quaid plays a “dragonslayer”, but he runs a con game alongside a dragon he has thrown in with. The dragon comes along a peaceful village, terrorizes it a bit, and then, lo and behold, the “dragonslayer” appears, to rid them of their dragon, once they pay him a handsome fee. Of course, the dragon and the slayer are in it together, splitting the profits from their little enterprise.
Well, looks like we are the peaceful village, North Korea is the dragon, and John Kerry and the democrat fifth column are the “dragonslayers”.