North Korea can look forward to “a future brimming with peace and prosperity” if it agrees to quickly give up its nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged on Friday ahead of a historic summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Er…isn’t that what the Iran deal was? The Iran deal that Trump just yanked the US out of? Rewards and incentives to a highly authoritarian and repressive regime in exchange for denuclearization with strict oversight?
Why is it ok to do that with North Korea but not with Iran?
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8 responses to “A future brimming with peace and prosperity”
Well, there’s the fact that the credit for Iran would go to Obama, and the credit for North Korea would go to Trump….
Yeah, that’s all I got.
Jeff @1: that’s all you need…
Ophelia, you Silly Billy!
Jeff is absolutely correct.
Also the Norks don’t have any oil or any rivals that actually want them brought low and humiliated for historical grievances.
Whereas Xerxes got a very early start.
Because Kim is only killing his own people. Sans the bomb, but with his dictatorship not in danger, fewer North Koreans will die of hunger, disease or forced labour. It will ensconce the the “juche” regime, but it’s a gamble worth making. Khamenei (and the rest of his theocratic clique), on the other hand, even sans bomb, is already the most murderous force in the Middle East since ISIS has waned. The ayatollah-ridden Iran – via Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards, Assad’s main allies – have the blood of half a million dead Syrians on their hands not to mention the miseries of millions of refugees. Sans sanctions, they will only continue their destabilization of the Middle East.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2018/what-happens-when-you-elect-a-damn-fool/#comment-2715920
Helene@6
Yes, of course the chaos in the ME is all the fault of the Iranian regime. We must forget the invasions by the US warmongers and the American proxy war against Iran by Saddam Hussein. He proved ineffective so he was eliminated.
Iran is the only rival of Israel that hasn’t been reduced to rubble and carnage so it’s, of course, next on the agenda. Iran has always been the main target of US/Israel policy in the region.
Helene, are you saying North Korea doesn’t trade with and supply weapons and missile technology to Iran or other powers we would rather they didn’t. because if they did, that would make them a contributor to death and misery. Just as indeed the US and many western powers are/have been.