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“Let me be very clear: The policy of strategic patience has ended,” Tillerson said at a news conference in Seoul with Yun Byung-se, the South Korean foreign minister. He was referring to the Obama administration policy of trying to wait North Korea out, hoping that sanctions would prove so crippling that Pyongyang would have no choice but to return to denuclearization negotiations. “We’re exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures. All options are on the table,” Tillerson said. While the United States does not want military conflict, threats “would be met with an appropriate response,” he added. |
What to make of this? What exactly does the abandonment of "strategic patience" entail? I get the displeasure with North Korea receiving aid and then continuing their programmes anyway, but does Trump & co really expect them to abandon the one bit of leverage they have? It's not easy to gauge how North Korea will react to this. My guess is that they will call it as a bluff, continue their research and continue to use it for leverage, because the prospect of them actually launching a nuclear strike on the U.S., even given ICBM technology, is incredibly unlikely; yet it will provide still more leverage.
The Trump administration will at some point then either back down and look toothless and weak, or start a nuclear war with humongous death tolls. The only thing these antics do is increase tension, in my opinion. I just can't see any good coming out of them
Thoughts?
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