China, South Korea vs. US on North Korea
Do you remember my earlier prediction?
I suspect that the latest North Korean gambit is a wedge to divide China, South Korea and the United States. China and South Korea will call North Korea's move "reasonable," and will pressure the US to meet North Korea's demands in an attempt to "salvage" the so-called agreement.Well, looks like it's coming true:If the US appeared unwilling to comply (as it should), then South Korea, in particular, will sell the deadlock as American intransigence in the face of "reasonable" negotiating position from North Korea (for domestic South Korean political purposes, of course).
Today, we hear that former anti-Reunification Minister and bribe bag-man Lim Dong-Won is calling for the U.S. to build the LWRs that should not even be a matter of discussion until the North makes at least some significant step toward NPT compliance. And in a case of the triumph of politics over logic, South Korea and China are now migrating toward meeting North Korea halfway, by finding ambiguity that isn’t there:They are so predictable.