Ex-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying on Thursday that he doesn’t believe Pyongyang will abandon its nuke weapons program in exchange for a suspension of US joint military exercises with South Korea.
Kissinger, who served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford during the 1970s, made the comments when he was speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C. on the security challenges facing the US.
A “freeze-for-freeze” under which the US and South Korea would suspend their regular military exercises in exchange for the North halting its nuclear and ballistic missile testing “will not … fulfill this purpose or even advance it,” Kissinger said in a statement posted on the committee’s website.
“North Korea acquired nuclear weapons to assure its regime’s survival; in its view, to give them up would be tantamount to suicide,” he said in other remarks, adding that “An outcome that was widely considered unacceptable is now on the verge of becoming irreversible.”
Kissinger reportedly called for an agreement on Korea’s future through the revival of the now-stalled six-party talks or a separate forum led by the US and China. He said that would be the course to follow in denuclearizing the peninsula.
Freeze for freeze had a chance on the outset. But after 1 year of yankee belligerent idiocy they wasted a buncha fuel doing dick showing military provocations while NK just continue on with the completion of nuclear and ballistic missiles program, and yankee diplomacy at its best = surrender to me I have no credibility and wont promise you anything. Sufficient to say a major protion of the blame for today’s situation goes to yankee themselves, and they now talk of starting a fking war in asia to save their idiot fking face. Why should 6 party talks involve yankee provocateurs – 5 parties are perfectly capable of coming to an arrangement themselves without being saddled with yankee baggage. Kick them out!
Agree. Talk. You cannot limit your option on something under the assumption that the other is stupid.
Nuke the DPRK’s kleptocratic regime, nuke the KPA, nuke the country’s nuclear sites. Now. It is a crime against humanity that it be allowed to exist on this Earth for 1 day, let alone 70+ years. Rid the global community of this blight.