Kim Jong Un’s Well-Timed ‘Surprise’ Portends Another Nuke Crisis

Kim Jong Un’s Well-Timed ‘Surprise’ Portends Another Nuke Crisis

 

Could Trump get rattled enough ahead of elections to blow this up?

 

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Harry J. Kazianis,  American Conservative,  June 17, 2020 12:01 am

 

 

If there is one thing I have learned about making a career out of studying North Korea it is this: the Kim regime loves to tell those who pay attention to its unique propaganda many times what it is going to do before it does it—sometimes even telegraphing for us in clear language the next crisis it intends to start.

 

If that holds constant now, then Pyongyang seems once again hellbent on sparking a crisis with the U.S. North Korea, angry that multiple summits with Seoul and Washington have failed to grant sanctions relief despite what they feel were big concessions on their part, could very well bring us back to the days of fire and fury and a crisis perhaps worse than the dark days of 2017.

 

The only question in my mind is the time and the place and type of escalation it could choose. But again, North Korea has handed us their plans well in advance, all we must do is listen and prepare for what is coming.

 

And, at least for now, the latest challenge with North Korea is a squabble between Seoul and Pyongyang that could get quite serious. The Kim regime, using the excuse of anti-regime leaflets that have been sent by South Korean activists on and off for decades, has been warning for several weeks that such action could spark a response. Kim Yo-jong, Chairman Kim Jong-un’s sister, has been the lead figure in putting out press release after press release attacking South Korea. And, with a warning that such action was coming, North Korea on Tuesday blew up the Inter-Korean liaison office, sparking another crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

 

And from here, things are bound to get worse, as North Korea clearly has plans for President Trump, which could very well mean a test of a long-range missile that, in theory, could hit the U.S. homeland, or an ICBM. In fact, true to form, North Korea keeps dropping hints that this very well could happen—and soon.

 

Going back to October of last year, Pyongyang has continued to increase the magnitude of threats it has made, especially after failed talks last fall in Stockholm, continuing to signal some sort of aggressive act was coming.

 

 

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