A senior US official denied on Friday that the US is mulling a so-called “bloody nose” strategy to carry out a limited military strike on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
Yonhap quoted the unidentified official, who spoke on background to reporters, as saying that the term “bloody nose” has never been used in the White House or anywhere else in the Donald Trump administration.
“We were perplexed by all of the news reports over the past several weeks referring to a so-called bloody nose strategy,” the official said in a meeting with South Korean reporters here. “My colleagues and I, up to the highest level, have even this morning, we were saying, ‘Where does this phrase come from?’ because we’ve never used it.”
The denial follows increasing speculation that “hawks” in the Trump administration have been bending the president’s ear about the effectiveness of a measured attack on North Korean nuclear weapons and missile facilities that would stop short of all-out war and bring the regime to the bargaining table.
They never followed rules, rules were always exempt for them. Except now they are no longer in such commanding position globaly they are being exposed more and can no longer cover it all up.
Just for North Korea issue for example, you might want to look up the independence process for Korea after WWII. At first Koreans, dispite differences, all wanted a united korea with elections. But US supported a murderous right wing dictator in the south, who began mass murder and purging of left wingers – whom he considered political opponents. Then elections were only held in south when it should be a whole Korean affair – and US enabled it all. At UN US also used its position to make UN recognize the partial election US enabled in the south to represent whole Korea. North Korea only came into being months AFTER US enabled all these to happen – murderous right wing dictator – unilateral and partial election in the south – and understandably, North Korea eventually embarked on a unification war to kick out what should be rightfully deemed as a puppet regime propped up by a imperial colonial power- back then.
The rest they say, is history. But its a sad one, and North Korea cannot be fully blamed for everything that happend. One can also almost understand their hatred – they were robbed of their united Korea after decades under Japanese boot – a celebratory event turned tragic – then they were divided by an outside power, and then beaten in their righteous quest to unite korea in a civil war – then marginalized by the same power that enabled it all – the US.
There’s plenty of these information on the web if you want to search. Wiki also have some preliminary info on all these.