Meeting with 62-year-old South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the White House today, 80-year-old President Joe Biden threatened to wipe out North Korea if they ever used a nuke on South Korea or the United States. “Look, a nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partners is unacceptable and would result in the end of whatever regime were to take such action,” Biden said in the White House Rose Garden with Yeol standing at his side. Whatever threats Biden makes publicly, especially with South Korea, 39-year-old North Korean President Kim Jong-un is bound to retaliate, either by firing off more Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBMs] or showcasing his formidable nuclear arsenal. Kim has gone full steam ahead with his nuclear program since 76-year-old former President Donald Trump left office Jan. 20, 2021. Biden has zero relations with Pyongyang.
All the tough talk by Biden is totally ignored by America’s adversaries, knowing he’s a weak president that won’t take any real action. New York Times today said that Trump had a failed policy in North Korea. Imagine that? Trump was the first U.S. president to have any relationship with Kim, let alone the first to cross the Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] into North Korea. Biden not only has zero relations with North Korea, he’s destroyed U.S.-Chinese relations, making any diplomacy or containment of Kim’s nuke program impossible. New York Times says nothing about Biden burning bridges with China and the Russian Federation. Every writer, every journalist, every Times employee must hue to the Democrat Party line, supporting Biden’s reelection whether he takes the nation to war in Europe or China. Biden’s the first U.S. president to trash decades of diplomacy with Russia and China.
When it comes to diplomacy with North Korea, a credible nuclear threat to South Korea and the United States, Biden has no leverage, no clout, no influence because of his abysmal relations with Russia and China. Where’s the New York Times intellectual honesty talking about Biden’s failure to maintain diplomatic relations with Russia and China? Talking about Trump’s failures, the New York Times exposes its extreme bias against Trump but, more importantly, reporting no facts, rather than pushing the Democrat agenda. Biden can make all the threats to North Korea but what has he done to repair severely damages relations with Beijing. When Biden breached the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act Sept. 23, 2022 signed by former President Jimmy Carter, Biden threatened to use U.S. troops to defend Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, 69, sees Taiwan as part of Mainland China.
Biden’s poor diplomatic relations with China has made any influence over Pyongyang impossible. Xi Jinping would have put pressure on Kim at Trump’s request only two years ago but now would do nothing to help the United States. Yet the New York Times says Trump’s failed to get Kim to reduce his stockpile of nukes or slow down production of new ICBMs and nuclear warheads. Trump’s relations with Kim were good enough to stop North Korea from threatening the U.S. or its allies. Biden announced he would increase nuclear deterrence with South Korea because of Kim’s nuclear activities. Announcing the U.S. and South Korea would have more nuclear cooperation, Biden has opened the door to a possible nuclear incident. Why would Biden go public with plans to coordinate nuclear activities with South Korea? Biden waved a red flag in front of the North Korean bull.
Where’s the intellectual honesty from the nation’s more influential newspaper and TV news outlets? Why do Democrats and the media back Biden’s policies that could lead to WW III or nuclear war? Where’s the criticism of Biden’s failure to maintain pragmatic, cooperative relations with U.S. adversaries? Decades of U.S. presidents since WW II has made every effort to maintain rapport with adversaries until Biden took office. Whatever one says about Trump, he maintained healthy continuity with U.S. adversaries, keeping the country from war. Only a month after Biden took office, he was embroiled in a new foreign war, this time with the Kremlin. Whatever happened to provoke 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, Biden didn’t have to join Ukraine’s war against the Kremlin. Biden decided to fund Ukraine government and war against the Kremlin.
Biden has burnt diplomatic bridges with Russia and China to the point they would no longer help the U.S. deal with North Korea or Iran. “What the declaration means is we’re going to make every effort to consult with our allies when its appropriate if any action is so called for,” Biden said, destined to make a bad situation worse. Recent joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea infuriated Kim, prompting him to shoot off more ballistic missiles. What does Biden thinks is going to happen announcing nuclear cooperation with South Korea. U.S. officials in the past wanted to keep the Korean Peninusla free of nuclear weapons. Biden’s statement contradictions years of nuclear diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula. Biden gave Kim the green light to press the pedal to the metal on his nuke programs. Threatening North Korea with nuclear war won’t sit well with Kim Jong-un.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
