{"id":349229,"date":"2018-02-21T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/treating-north-korea-rough\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:18:32","slug":"treating-north-korea-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/treating-north-korea-rough\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating North Korea Rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99914\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99914\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-20-at-5.30.08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"384\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by John Pavelka | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since entering office, the Trump administration has directed a reckless and dangerous pressure campaign against North Korea that has made life worse for the North Korean people while increasing the likelihood of war.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure campaign includes increasingly stringent sanctions backed by the threat of war. Administration officials say the campaign is necessary to pressure the North Korean government into abandoning its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy deal was that, we\u2019ve got to treat them rough,\u201d President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-interview-excerpts.html\">explained<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is directing the campaign despite a growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/29\/world\/asia\/north-korea-nuclear.html\">consensus<\/a> that it will not work. Over the past year, U.S. officials have largely concluded that no amount of pressure will force the North Korean government to give up its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats <a href=\"http:\/\/aspensecurityforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/At-the-Helm-of-the-Intelligence-Community.pdf\">explained<\/a> at the Aspen Security Forum that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un believed that nuclear weapons were necessary for \u201csurvival for his regime\u201d and \u201csurvival for his country.\u201d The basic reason is that \u201chaving the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability,\u201d Coats said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, many leaders around the world have reached the same conclusion, according to Coats. After watching outside powers interfere in Libya and Ukraine, he explained, heads of state have concluded that they need nuclear weapons to deter invasions. \u201cThe lessons that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/21\/treating-north-korea-rough\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by John Pavelka | CC BY 2.0 Since entering office, the Trump administration has directed a reckless and dangerous pressure campaign against North Korea that has made life worse for the North Korean people while increasing the likelihood of war. The pressure campaign includes increasingly stringent sanctions backed by the threat of war. Administration [&hellip;]<\/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-349229","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\/349229","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=349229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}