1. Mike Pence is in Seoul for the Olympics & a rift between USA & South is widening. South wants to use events as bridge to diplomacy with North, Trump administration doesn't.
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3. The origins of the rift are in fact Trump administration quite frankly values American lives much more than Korean or Japanese ones. Willing to terrifying war to reduce chance North Korea can bomb USA.
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4. CIA director Mike Pompeo: “this administration is prepared to do what it takes to ensure that people in Los Angeles and Denver and New York aren’t held at risk from Kim Jong-un having a nuclear weapon.” What it takes = countless dead Asians.
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5. Leaving aside the morality of the Trump position, why should South Koreans accept a strategy where they will die to marginally increase safety of Americans?
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6. Given Trump administrations stated disregard for their lives, South Korea perfectly justified in wanting to move out of USA orbit. And this could lead to a genuine diplomatic resolution:https://newrepublic.com/article/147004/madman-accidentally-bring-peace-korean-peninsula …
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It is if you still wanna go to war
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I'd say so, because it is not only with regards to Korea that the US will be seen as less consequential, but the world over. The price of being the top dog is being the top dog.
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Yes because Diplomacy in lock step with Seoul will give US more leverage-openly wrecking Seoul’s initiative gives Pyongyang more leverage.
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I think many/most Think Tankies never adjusted to the trauma of South Korea, and other client regimes, making the transition to democracy in the last twenty odd years.
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