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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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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