1. Since people are being willfully obtuse in interpreting this tweet, I'm going to delete and spell out, slowly, why North Korean charm offensive is surprisingly successful.pic.twitter.com/io7hN1PuXw
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1. Since people are being willfully obtuse in interpreting this tweet, I'm going to delete and spell out, slowly, why North Korean charm offensive is surprisingly successful.pic.twitter.com/io7hN1PuXw
2. South Korea is unusually close ally to USA. More than an ally: they owe their very national survival to USA. Yet a rift has opened up between USA & South Korea. Why?
3. If USA is South Korea's most important ally, North Korea has been an existential threat for 7 decades. Yet during Olympics North's "charm offensive" is gaining real traction.
4. Is North Korea a Stalinist hell-hole & threat to world? Sure. You know who knows that more than anyone? The South Koreans. They're more likely to be killed by North than anyone, have had citizens kidnapped, etc.
5. Yet if the South Koreans know Kim Jong Un's regime is vile & USA is key to their national survival, why is , Kim Yo Jong receiving a warm welcome even as SK gov't opening a rift with Trump administration?
6. Obvious problem is Trump's nuclear bluster ("fire & fury" Rocketman on a suicide mission). But the problem goes beyond that. Trump administration explicit policy is devaluing South Korean lives.
The official US policy now and for the last 6 decades is that 37000 US troops could serve as a trip wire. Hard to be more devalued than that. So devalued you forget they’re there.
Your argument is with the man the Trump administration almost picked to be ambassador to South Korea.
His argument, among other key points, emphasized the potential loss of 250K Americans, so at least he’s passingly familiar with the risks of war. He’s certainly not making the argument you do.
According to Cha, those in Trump administration believe "the risks are still worth taking because it’s better that people die 'over there' than 'over here.'" In other words, that Korean & Japanese lives have less value than American ones.
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