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White House takes cautious approach on N Korea overture

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With the US spending the better part of Trump's presidency threatening "Fire and Fury" and pushing, along with Japan, for more weapons sales and military presence to counter NK, they don't want to take them up on this too quickly.

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They don't have enough money to take on Iran and North Korea but business is brisk and Abe wants to go to war too.

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Won't last longer than a month or two. No one is that stupid to think that NK is mysteriously agreeable to disarming all of their nukes all of a sudden, besides possibly Moon and some especially egregious NK brown nosers. But yeah, no one of any importance is that impossibly stupid

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It seems like not only the U.S. wants North Korea to disarm (as far as nuclear weapons go) but most world nations.

The smartest move would be for the U.S. not to take the bait and not make this the U.S. trying to get NK to disarm but the UN.

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The North said nothing of denuclearization. Only talks which they will absolutely not give up their trump card. This is a ploy on NK's part to show the world that they "made an attempt" at bringing peace to the peninsula but I don't buy it at all. Moon is being used like a puppet. The North only plays hardball.

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I haven't seen any signs that North Korea plans to attack anyone. I see Kim trying to keep Trump out of his country. I say accommodate him and leave him alone. Kim knows that any attack on the US is suicidal.

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The Japanese should be aware that it was increasingly damaging American sanctions that drove Japan to attack Pearl Harbour, as FDR had planned. Japan, realising that war was inevitable, decided to get the first blow in.

Increasingly harsh sanctions by the US risk having the same effect on North Korea, history repeating itself.

For a very detailed book about FDR's plans to draw Japan into attacking Pearl, read 'Day of Deceit' by Robert B. Stinnett.

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Here we go again. Another American President preparing to fall for the same old North Korean rope-a-dope. Please don’t be as stupid as the last three presidents and end up giving the Kim dynasty economic aid and get nothing in return except talk and subterfuge.

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North Korea's "new overture" for talks is nothing new. They'll find an excuse to close the door as they have repeatedly in the past.

What they are open to talk about is U.S. willing to accept DPRK peace treaty, i.e., removal of U.S. military from the peninsula, surrendering South Korea to a Unified Korea under DPRK, and world recognition of DPRK regime as the official government of Unified Korea.

South Korea President Moon may be willing to accept these terms, but I hope Trump and the UN won't.

 I say accommodate him and leave him alone. Kim knows that any attack on the US is suicidal.

CrazyJoe, accomodate him as to acceptance of DPRK to take over the entire Korean pensinsula? Given North Korea's mass murdering and crimes against humanity, are you willing to accept responsibility for advocating the same fate for the entire Unified Korea? You know that any South Korean who doesn't accept DPRK regime will be starved, tortured and executed.

And Kim knows his nuclear weapons and ICBM program is succeeding at scaring and intimidating Moon and peace advocates into agreeing to any kind of terms.

The Japanese should be aware that it was increasingly damaging American sanctions that drove Japan to attack Pearl Harbour, as FDR had planned. Japan, realising that war was inevitable, decided to get the first blow in.

Increasingly harsh sanctions by the US risk having the same effect on North Korea, history repeating itself.

For a very detailed book about FDR's plans to draw Japan into attacking Pearl, read 'Day of Deceit' by Robert B. Stinnett.

Paul, What were the reasons sanctions were imposed in the first place?

In the zeal to "prove" the conspiracy that FDR wanted to provoke Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, You and Stinnett have conveniently overlooked Japan's military expansionism beginning with the 1931 invasion of Manchuria and 1937 occupation of China and continued militaristic expansion throughout Asia up until 1941.

FDR repeatedly asked Japan to withdraw from China and stop their military expansion. Japan ignored these demands. Eventually, sanctions were imposed. Japan responded with a military attack on Pearl Harbor with the hopes that with U.S. Pacific Navy fleet destroyed, the U.S. would quickly surrender and Japan could continue its expansion and dominance throughout the Pacific region.

Back to North Korea: If DPRK hadn't starved, tortured and executed their own people and hadn't embarked on a nuclear weapons and ICBM program in the first place and upsetting the military parity in the Korean peninsula, sanctions wouldn't have been imposed.

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"I haven't seen any signs that North Korea plans to attack anyone"

Ever hear of a ship called the Cheonan?

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