Continuing to ratchet up the rhetoric on North Korea, President Trump once again disavowed assurances from his cabinet that the goal is a diplomatic solution, declaring yesterday that “talking is not the answer” and claiming the US has been “paying them extortion money for 25 years.”
North Korea’s recent test-launch of three short range ballistic missiles failed to provoke a militant reaction from Washington or Seoul.
South Korea said that the nature of the North Korean launches which used short range rather than medium or inter-continental ballistic missiles, is a sign that Pyongyang may be ready to engage in dialogue with other international powers.
North Korea’s recent test-launch of three short range ballistic missiles has apparently failed to provoke a militant reaction from Washington or Seoul. This would seem to indicate that the most intense phase of America’s campaign of intimidation against Pyongyang has ebbed, albeit perhaps temporarily.
Following the lengthy discussions in Camp David which I discussed in my previous article, US President Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson published on Monday separate statements about the war in Afghanistan.
During the height of the American war in Vietnam, an underground radical musical group,The Fugs released a song called Kill For Peace. The polemic meaning was a clear mockery of a US policy that involved dropping bombs on Vietnam under the guise of fighting for peace. The song’s message succeeded just as sure as the war in Vietnam ultimately failed.
President Trump appears lost in the swamp of his own shallow mind, pulling down the “adults” around him more than they can lift him up, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. By Paul R. Pillar Optimism has repeatedly been…Read more →
Le président américain Donald Trump, avec son secrétaire d’Etat Rex Tillerson et son ambassadrice à l’ONU Nikki Haley, le 11 août 2017 à Bedminster, New Jersey. Photo : REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
En vacances dans son golf à Bedminster dans le New Jersey, Donald Trump s’est fendu, vendredi 11 août 2017, d’une salve de déclarations fracassantes à propos du Venezuela.
Rex Tillerson has once again proved that he is not as hawkish as many of her peers in Washington in both the Republican and Democratic party.
Tillerson spoke with reporters while on a plane and assured the American public that North Korea does not pose an imminent threat to the United States and that Americans should “sleep well at night”, without fear of war with Pyongyang.
He also stated that the US territory of Guam which last night North Korea threatened to “envelope in fire” is not under threat.
The US Secretary of State continued,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Manila where President Rodrigo Duterte is hosting the ASEAN summit. The summit’s importance has been deeply enhanced due to the importance of discussions between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the Korean issue. Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State has also been in Manila and has appeared to endorse the joint statement from the Russian and Chinese Foreign Ministers.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stands before laying a wreath at the mausoleum of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Ankara, Turkey, March 30, 2017. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Washington has made one of its most foreboding threats so far against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson openly floated the possibility of stepping up “regime change” measures against the government of democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro.
