Announcing his desire to reunify North and South Korea, 34-year-old dictator Kim Jong-un hopes to split South Korea from the United States, especially 71-year-old president Donald Trump. Trump’s warned Kim about “fire-and-fury” August 8, 2017 in response to Pyongyang’s nuclear threats against the United States. North Korea’s official KCNA news agency said Sept. 13, 2017 that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea [DPRK] would reduce the U.S. to “ashes and darkness,” “sink” Japan and “wipe out” South Korea, making more nuclear threats against the U.S .and its allies. When Kim talks of “wiping out” South Korean he’s talking about more than nuclear threats: He’s talking about wiping out South Korea’s political power structure and running South Korea from Pyongyang. Km’s overture to reunification today seeks to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul.
Playing pernicious propaganda games is part of totalitarian regimes, speaking in what the British author George Orwell called “doublespeak” in his classic novel “1984.” When you consider Kim’s brutal totalitarian regime, calling Peoples Republic of Korea “Democratic,” tells the whole story. Talking about reunification Kim plays to South Korean fears of U.S. military intervention. South Koran President Moon Jae-in promised during his 2015 election to work toward peaceful relations with Pyongyang. Moon expressed concern about the belligerent back-and-forth between Trump and Kim, both threatening to attack the other. North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told the United Nations Sept. 23, 2017 that it was “inevitable” that DPRK ballistic missiles would hit the U.S. Since then, the DPRK has been telling U.S. allies “not to worry” about its nukes and ballistic missiles.
Telling all Koreans ‘at home and abroad” to make a “breakthrough” to promote trade and travel between the Koreas without foreign involvement, the Kim regime played to the global audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha took the bait, calling for negotiations on Kim’s nukes and ballistic missile program. Speaking in Davos“[the nuclear issue] has to be solved through diplomatic endeavors. The idea of military solution is unacceptable,” said Kang, speaking to Trump, who drew a red line on Kim’s pursuit of a nuclear-tipped Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [ICBM]. Kim boasted after a Sept. 3 ICBM test of its Kwasong15 ICBM that the DPRK could hit anywhere in the United States. Kang’s statement panders to the European Union, whose leaders strongly oppose any war on the Korean Peninsula.
Showing thaat Kang knows she can’t control what the U.S. must do to protect its national security, she admitted she would be briefed on any U.S. military action. “I’m assured that anything the United States does on this front is done with close consultation with us,” Kang admitted to reporters in Davos. While saying the military action on the Korean Peninsula is “unacceptable,” Kang knows that it’s not her call. North Korea made clear Jan. 9 in meeting with South Korea over sending a delegation to the Feb. 8-25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that there would be no discussion about North Korea’s nukes and ballistic missiles. Kim has made clear that he considers North Korea a “nuclear state,” and would not under any circumstances disarm its nukes and ballistic missiles. North Korea has told NATO and South Korean that its nukes and ballistic missiles are intended only for the U.S.
Pushing its reunification propaganda at Davos, Kim’s faces a dim reality of what happens after the Seoul Winter Olympics Feb. 25. When the international community clears out of Seoul, Trump will resume his demand that Kim disarm his nukes and ballistic missiles. So far, the DPRK has shunned all U.N. Security Council Resolution calling for Kim’s nuclear disarmament. While Kim likes to blame only the U.S., he knows that his allies China and Russia have signed on to the Security Council resolutions. Unlike past U.S. administration, Trump has promised that Kim will not get an operational ICBM to threaten the U.S. or its allies. CIA and other intel sources estimate that Kim is within a year, if not sooner, of a nuclear-tipped ICBM. Trump told South Korea Sept. 3 that he would not tolerate “appeasement” of North Korea’s nukes and ballistic missiles.
South Korea’s Foreign Minister Kang took Kim’s bait hook, line and sinker about reunifying the two Koreas. Pandering to pacifism in South Korea, Kim tries his best to split Seoul from Washington over Kim’s nukes and ballistic missiles. Telling NATO and South Korea that its ICBMs are intended only for the U.S., Kim reinforces Trump’s determination to disarm the North Korean tyrant. No one knows how to play propaganda games better than North Korea, trying to seduce South Korea into believing Kim’s lies. Kim schemes with his nukes and ballistic missiles to reunify the Koreas but only if Pyongyang becomes the controlling legal entity. With nearly 40,000 U.S. troop defending South Korea since July 27, 1953, Seoul knows whom to trust. Kim’s call for “reunification” is about South Korea pressuring Trump to appease Pyongyang.
