American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Conflict on Korean Peninsula

Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by icebraining on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:03PM (#16252778)

Ever since the Trump/NK crisis began, I've been thinking if it's not just an application of the Madman theory by Trump. Of course, I wasn't the only one[1], but that article (written in October) says that "it’s hard to see the North Koreans backing down in hopes that Mr. Trump will return to reason and be a stable, rational negotiating partner", yet isn't exactly what they did since then?

The top article says that the "Trump administration’s policy (...) has significantly increased the risk of a disastrous war", but has it? Who would actually start a war over that policy? The author himself says that the DPKR is trying to defuse tensions, so who else?

Except for a few sleepless nights for the citizens in range of a NK ICBM, the results of the current "crisis" seem mostly positive.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/the-madness-behin...

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by Udik on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:13PM (#16252845)

> yet isn't exactly what they did since then?

It doesn't look like. They did what they wanted to do (test their nukes and ballistic missiles) and now they're offering the carrot of better relations with their south counterpart. Trump has been substantially ignored.

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by icebraining on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:17PM (#16252874)

Why are they offering that carrot now, if not as a reaction to Trump?

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by IntronExon on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:20PM (#16252896)

What carrot? They’re just replaying the “Sunshime Policy” symbolic crap from the 80’s. This is pure DPRK playbook material to drive a political wedge between the ROK and US.

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by Udik on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:38PM (#16253013)

I'd say because they're done anyway with what they were doing, for the moment. They don't need to launch missiles all the time.

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by Feniks on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:15PM (#16252859)

Lol how American centric. North Korea has so far gotten everything they aimed for. The Olympic games, continued nuclear program and the cancellation of US military exercises. And North-South diplomatic talks without US involvement.

Apparently someone managed to explain to Trump that he has no military options and that nobody in the region appreciated his crazy talk.

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Re:American Illusions and Korean Realities: Preventing Confl... by finanmech on Sunday January 28, 2018 @02:23PM (#16252914)

Exactly, and that's why we need to hit them (North Korea, China, Russia) where it hurts. China's sputtering economy. We don't need China's manufacturing; we can outsource from other countries SEA, or we can start to move back our factories via automation. China on the other hand desperately needs our consuming power.

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