North Korea Is a Communist Country That has No Intentions of Giving Up Its Nuclear Ambitions

But I repeat myself:

I started to think about Kim Jong Un’s calculus after reading the July 1 issue of the Rodong Sinmun. I believe that Kim Jong Un’s primary objective is not about the denuclearization process at all, but to revamp internal solidarity and reinforce North Korea’s status as a nuclear power by creating the impression that the US is submitting to the regime.

The North Korean media emphasized that “the Supreme Leader and President Trump stepped toward the Panmun Pavilion on the north side of Panmunjom where they shook hands again, creating the historic moment of a sitting US President setting foot on the soil of the DPRK across the Military Demarcation Line for the first time in history.”

It reminded me of President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. The North Korean media also widely reported the moment when President Nixon stepped out of his plane and put his foot on Chinese soil.

At the time, Kim Il Sung described the visit with the tagline ‘Nixon visits China with a white flag.’ The US was previously trying to isolate China, but after China’s successful testing of a hydrogen bomb in 1967, the US announced the Nixon Doctrine and the US president visited China in 1972.

Kim Jong Un wants to create the impression among his people that the US is so desperate to meet that Trump came all the way to Panmunjom following the Singapore and Hanoi summits.

But the fact that President Trump mentioned the possibility of a meeting in the morning and Kim Jong Un came down that very afternoon, I thought that Kim Jong Un must be more desperate. I also assume that Kim did not gain much from Xi’s recent visit because he made the move without giving Xi due respect in terms of diplomatic protocol.

Unless North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons program, the US will not lift sanctions and will continue pursuing dialogue and sanctions side by side. Due to US pressure, China will also reduce its aid to North Korea and the ordinary North Koreans are the ones who will end up suffering.

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North Korea slammed South Korea over its ongoing deployment of high-tech U.S. fighter jets, warning Thursday that it will respond by developing and testing unspecified special weapons of its own to “destroy” the aircraft.

The statement, which also urged South Korea to abandon its “preposterous illusions” for improved ties, comes as Seoul has expressed hopes that a recent summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will help revive dialogue between the Koreas.

Neither of these reports give the impression that Kim Jong-un is softening and opening up to the world, regardless of what the North Korean press or Trump's cheerleaders may wish everyone to believe.


One cannot trust a communist ever.

But, again, I repeat myself.






(Kamsahamnida)