"The United States bombed "everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another." After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops . (VOX.co)"
Kim Jong-un does not need teaching on fire and fury. In the past 30 years the U.S. has taught North Korea and anybody else about fire and fury. The U.S. has committed military aggression against approximately 20 countries in the past 30 years, (not including covert operations and support of proxies) and none of those countries had a nuclear deterrent.
The North Koreans especially observed Libya, as Bush advised them to. The North Koreans saw what happened to Muammar Gaddafi when he gave up his nuclear project. They saw the glee it brought Hillary. U.S. agreements are meaningless. How could they have missed George W. Bush's message to listen up? It was specifically addressed to them:
"If a country like Libya was to show transparency and active cooperation, that can open the doors, a complete change of face, it is a lesson for North Korea to observe.''--Bush 2003
The mainstream media cannot stop saying that Kim Jong-un is "irrational, unstable, unpredictable and paranoid". And that he refuses to come to the negotiation table. Many experts say that the former is not so, and the U.S. State Department confirms that it is the U.S. that refuses to negotiate. On August 15, 2017 a press conference at the State Department must be a record for insanity.
Here is a partial transcript of one of the strangest press conferences at the State Department, August 15, 2017. The spokesperson for the State Department is Heather Nauert:
Question: Is it still the position of the administration that the North Koreans have to do something other than just say "we want to talk" before you'll sit down with them?
Answer: I think so. I mean, the Secretary, I think, was pretty clear about that today. Just a couple days ago he spoke about this as well. He said, look, we'll talk, but they have to take some serious steps. Susan Thornton, our acting assistant secretary for East Asia Pacific, who's been very engaged with the Secretary on this issue, has said the same thing. Look, we're willing to sit down and talk with them, but it appears that that's not -- that's not going to happen imminently. They have to take some serious steps before we get there. --- So just to be clear, not launching ballistic missiles towards Guam is not enough--- the Secretary has been clear about we will see it -- they know what they need to do to get us to come to the negotiating table
Question: Okay. So just to put the finest point on it possible, you're not going to go and sit down with them then unless they take steps that they know that they have to do? That's -- just them saying we're open or we're not -- we're going to hold off on sending missiles towards Guam is not going to get you interested in having a dialogue; that is correct?
Answer: I think they would have to do quite a bit more
Question: So if they know what they have to do and our allies in South Korea and Japan know what they have to do, it's only the U.S. people and our readers who don't know what they have to do?
Amazing! Outrageous! It shows how low the public is held in the U.S. government's esteem. It also shows how the mainstream does not report inconvenient facts. It is called contempt for the public. North Korea is willing to negotiate. They have negotiated in the past. They have made offers to negotiate. They have no preconditions. They want a peace treaty. The U.S. knows it. The mainstream media knows it. They are lying.
Kim Jong-un is not the insane one, Trump may be, but it is too soon to say. We will know for sure that he is if he uses the military option, which is called aggression and war.
Realistically, the most that the U.S. can hope for in negotiations is that North Korea agrees to freeze its nuclear program, accepts inspection, and signs the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The holdup is that the U.S. does not know what it is willing to give up in return, and is holding out for as little as possible. Or they do not know. If Trump is sane, which nobody is sure about, then all the outrageous rhetoric is to gain time so that the U.S. can negotiate from maximum strength. Trump's top advisors know that North Korea will not agree to give up their nukes.
Donald Gregg is one of the best experts America has on North Korea (bio here). According to an interview reported in Time Magazine July 24, 2017 he said, "We can't deal with them if we don't understand them, and we won't understand them if we aren't talking to each other". He says to forget preconditions. Gregg also says that Kim Jong-un is "smart, tough, and a risk taker" who sees his nuclear arsenal as protection against a U.S. attack. "The North Koreans aren't suicidal. They don't want a war---North Korea's leaders are "thoughtful, well-educated pragmatists." Like Coats, Gregg does not believe that North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons.
The other alternative to negotiations, the military option, "fire and fury"; that would be insane.
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