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Donald J. Trump has complicated what ought to be the simplest of Kim Jong Un’s reported demands of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

He wants guarantees that he can keep his job as North Korea’s strongman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, no “regime change.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sounded semi-conciliatory in that regard the other day when he said that United States has no interest in overthrowing Kim and seeks a “diplomatic solution” to the growing crisis on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

Then the president chimed in with comments threatening “fire and fury” and saying that U.S. military is “locked and loaded” in case<\/em> Kim decides to make any “overt threats” against the United States or its allies.<\/p>\n

The term “locked and loaded” means, in military terms, that your weapon is loaded and that you’ve put the first round in the chamber. You’re set to fire said weapon. Is that what the commander in chief meant? Are we now set to launch a first strike against the North Koreans?<\/p>\n

Kim is thought to be mindful of past U.S. military actions, providing him with cause to make the demand that he not be tossed out by an invading force.<\/p>\n

I present you the March 2013 U.S. invasion of Iraq <\/a>, which was launched for the expressed purpose of ridding Iraq of its own dictator, the late Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush and his national security team told us Saddam had “weapons of mass destruction,” which became the primary selling point for launching the invasion. Our military launched a full frontal assault. It got to Baghdad. We scoured the country from stem to stern looking for WMD. We found none. Nothin’, man.<\/p>\n

Oh, we eventually pulled Saddam out of that spider hole. The Iraqis put him on trial, convicted him of crimes against humanity — and hanged him.<\/p>\n

Kim doesn’t want that to happen to himself or his closest sycophants.<\/p>\n

The secretary of state is trying to sound a reasoned, rational tone. The president, though, keeps pre-empting him with talk of an entirely different nature. What’s more, the secretary of state does serve at the pleasure of the president.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump has complicated what ought to be the simplest of Kim Jong Un’s reported demands of the United States of America. He wants guarantees that he can keep his job as North Korea’s strongman.\u00a0 In other words, no “regime change.” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sounded semi-conciliatory in that regard the other day … Continue reading What does Kim Jong Un want? Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1899,2334,2681,3335,6734,4069,4174,5283],"class_list":["post-23783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq-war","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23786,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions\/23786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}