North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observes a shelling drill of a long-range artillery sub-unit in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency late last week. (KCNA/Reuters)
US 'Strategic Patience' Policy Toward North Korea Not Working, Analysts Say -- Wyatt Olson, Stars and Stripes
North Korea’s development of missile technology and the production of plutonium and uranium used for nuclear weapons have advanced unabated under President Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic patience,” analysts say.
“If you straight-line into the future, the threat is going to get worse,” said Joel S. Wit, a former State Department official who manages the 38 North website run by Johns Hopkins University’s US-Korea Institute in Washington, D.C., where he is a visiting scholar.
“It’s gotten worse since 2009 when the Obama administration took office, and it’s going to keep getting worse and worse and worse.”
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My Comment: President Obama will never acknowledge that his policy has failed .... so expect more of the same .... and expect the threat of conflict and war to increase correspondingly.
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Question: Does the US still give aid to the North Koreans?
Nope, and the Clinton Era deal, where the US Guaranteed Oil Subsidies and to build "safe" nuclear reactors for North Korea, in exchange for North Korea dropping it's weapons program, was dead before the foundations were ever built, killed by Congress.
North Korea already has a sugar daddy, China.
Giving money, oil, food so that North Korea behaves is called tribute.
How well did it work for China or Byzantium against the steppe nomads?
The Clinton deal on the North Korean nukes was a good of a deal as Obama is making for CO2.
China gets it CO2 target set based on its' CO2 production in 2030, an "out year" 2030 and the U.S. has a hard cap now.
There is a difference between tribute, and trade.
The Clinton Deal was a trade deal, North Korean energy self sufficiency, replacing the Soviet Energy subsidies, in exchange for the US running all the North Korean energy programs.
Could have gone somewhere, might have not.
Instead, we have a highly more unstable Nork regime, armed with nuclear weapons, with China just propping them up enough, so they don't collapse entirely and blow up that corner of the world.
" in exchange for the US running all the North Korean energy programs."
I'll have to look that up.
Running at a guaranteed loss or break even is *tribute*.
North Korea is a Chinese proxy and should be a Chinese problem. the 100 family oligarchy or some portion of it can be replaced. the rest ... not so lucky.
China already has an illegal immigration problem from North Korea. They might as well might the bullet.
If China got rid of the Nork leadership (retiring some of them to nice villas) and let South Korea unify the country like West Germany did East Germany, they could do so on the proviso that South Korea politely disinvites the U.S. military. There is a SOFA after all. The US and China both stay out and South Korea trades with both. Pipe dream, but it is better than war.
China lost out to the Soviets as far as the Nork's go, in 1975.
Since the collapse of the Soviets, China has had as much pull over the Norks, as the US has over Israel, or Saudi Arabia.
As many former African Despots have shown over the years, the perks of absolute power, trump a quiet retirement in a Med Villa, even if "home" is a starving, disease ridden cesspool. Money is not the same thing as grovelling servillity and Personality Cults.
In the short term, the next 15 to 40 years, we can look forward to year after year of Nork nuclear, missile and brinkmanship tantrums until the entire Kim line is dead.
In the short term, the next 15 to 40 years, we can look forward to year after year of Nork nuclear, missile and brinkmanship tantrums until the entire Kim line is dead.
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I assume Kim Jung Un has kids.
Kim Ju Ae, girl, born sometime in 2012.
Unless he has a son there will be strong suitor for the daughter's hand in due time or there will be a power struggle.
Being overweight does not help for a man or a woman in that regard.
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