{"id":323398,"date":"2017-08-27T03:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-cant-wheeler-dealer-trump-cut-a-deal-with-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-08-27T03:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T02:21:41","slug":"why-cant-wheeler-dealer-trump-cut-a-deal-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-cant-wheeler-dealer-trump-cut-a-deal-with-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t Wheeler-Dealer Trump Cut a Deal with North Korea? \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States and South Korea are currently engaged in large-scale, joint-military war games that simulate an invasion of the North, the destruction of the DPRK\u2019s nuclear weapons sites, and a \u201cdecapitation operation\u201d to take out the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. The objective of the operation is to intensify tensions between North and South thereby justifying the continued US occupation of the peninsula and the permanent division of the country.<\/p>\n

Imagine if North Korea decided to conduct massive \u201clive fire\u201d military drills, accompanied by a Chinese naval flotilla, just three miles off the coast of California.\u00a0 And, let\u2019s say, they decided to send formations of strategic high-altitude aircraft loaded with nuclear bombs to fly along the Canada and Mexico borders while tens of thousands of combat troops accompanied by hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles rehearsed a \u201cshock and awe\u201d type blitz onto US territory where they would immediately crush the defending army, level cities and critical civilian infrastructure, and topple the regime in Washington.<\/p>\n

Do you think the\u00a0Trump administration would dismiss\u00a0the North\u2019s provocative war games as merely \u201cdefensive maneuvers\u201d or would they see them as a clear and present danger to US national security warranting a prompt and muscular response from the military?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a no brainer, isn\u2019t it? If North Korea treated the US like the US treats North Korea, then…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Jake Cvnningham | CC BY 2.0 The United States and South Korea are currently engaged in large-scale, joint-military war games that simulate an invasion of the North, the destruction of the DPRK\u2019s nuclear weapons sites, and a \u201cdecapitation operation\u201d to take out the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. The objective of the operation is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-323398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}