Volume 6, Issue 24
What is the real situation?
It is really this simple. Kim can no longer implement a business-as-usual strategy to maintain dictatorial control of North Korea. His regime’s totalitarian run has come to an end. He has been offered many options, including asylum. He desires to stay in power in North Korea. His adversaries require denuclearization. If he agrees to such an ultimatum, how can he be assured that the United States will not invade? How does he avoid the Muammar Gaddafi aftereffect? This is his personal frightening dilemma.
First, how has Donald Trump changed the geopolitical dynamics? President Trump has decided that the world’s trading system is biased against the United States. He is correct. America allows trade infractions as a sacrifice to support global stability. The U.S. was convinced that this was the best global strategy following World War II. It is important to remember that the United States was not the world leader in all things (military, financial, banking, trade, and currency) that it is today prior to World War II. We relied upon our European allies to advise us on world management. This is particularly true in reference to cultural conflict. Donald Trump has declared that business as usual is not working. The world’s trading and financial systems must be revisited and reformed.
How is this relevant to North Korea?
China is being held accountable for trade violations and commercial mischief. Since 1994, China has been the errant child in a classroom that is tolerated to avoid a greater disturbance. In the beginning, their economy was not big enough to make the cost too high. Now it is. For help and grace from the United States in Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, China is, in turn, enforcing trade sanctions against North Korea.
Kim cannot keep the truth of economic prosperity in South Korea from the internal population forever. His only option to maintain dictatorial control is to further oppress the freedom of his people. This means more citizens in gulags, more executions, in essence, more brutality. There is a point where oppression leads to overthrow. Atrocities and barbarism are never sustainable.
The answer for Kim and North Korea is to accept President Trump’s offer for economic development and help in modernization. In reciprocation, North Korea must commit to denuclearize. Kim is trying to decide how to lay down his weapons and hope that America will not invade and remove him from power. Tyrants fear an opponent’s superior force.
The United States of America is the first country in the history of the world to achieve military superiority over all others and not use it in a bullying way for selfish purposes. We do not attack other countries except in defense of our own. America truly is the world’s first and only great benevolent power. As citizens of the United States, we not only accept this fact, we expect it to be forthright in our foreign policy.
Kim has a critical choice to make whether or not to trust in America’s benevolence. He is not receiving any help from unity of voices in America.
The national press condemns President Trump for not achieving a more substantive agreement. They seem to have forgotten that, in 1994, Bill Clinton negotiated basically the same terms for what was then called arms control. North Korea had not successfully detonated an atomic bomb at the time. Now they have nuclear weapons. How is what Donald Trump is doing any worse?
The Democratic Senate leadership sent a letter to President Trump immediately prior to the summit demanding that he not agree to a deal that did not include absolutely verifiable dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear capability. They failed to send such a letter to President Obama during his negotiations with Iran.
And, of course, Robert De Niro’s outburst at the Tony Awards was so obnoxious, vulgar, incoherent, and reprehensible that it does not even deserve an honest response.
All of this condemnation is in light of the fact that South Koreans are ecstatic with the opportunity presented by the summit.
The President deserves support from Congress to back his policy with North Korea: denuclearize or face a military option. No progressive has mentioned the fact that, left to his own means, Kim can further brutalize the North Korean people. Innocent lives will be lost. It’s time to stop the madness.
Further, no progressive has acknowledged the fact that, by meeting with President Trump, Kim can no longer state without reference that the United States is evil. Throughout Asia, the reputation of the United States has been enhanced by the summit’s cultural representation.
In previous Nuttle Reports, I have discussed the history of the bilateral relationships between North Korea and China. The unfair trade practices of most countries in the world in regards to the United States have been addressed. Progressives’ intent to maintain business as usual as a priority, rather than defense of freedom as an imperative, has been ventilated.
For the sake of simplicity, the consideration of the North Korean situation can be distilled down to the decision that is Kim’s to make: believe that America will keep her word or not. The choice is his.
Commit to denuclearization.
Allow the light of freedom to penetrate the darkness.
Or face the consequences.
The President deserves support from all Americans as “The President” when defending values of liberty. Unity in principle embellishes unity in the world.
Kim must know this reality, inhumane cruelty and threats to other nations end in the first term of President Trump.
There is peace in the world knowing that benevolence can, in fact, include enforcement of freedom.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?