re: #39 goddamnedfrank

I don’t think he’s planning to give them up at all. I think he wants to leverage them into creating legitimacy and a public relations coup against the US. To create a narrative where he’s seen as having tried to be reasonable but that America is antithetical to peace in Korea and the Asia Pacific region. To prove in a sense that he and his father were strategically correct to pursue this program, because “North Korea needs nuclear weapons to survive in the face of imperialist US aggression.”

At least that’s what 70 years of North Korean propaganda tell me he’s planning.

Or when he says “denuclearize the Korean peninsula”, that means US bases must go (we have nuclear submarines, the planes we use in the vicinity can carry nuclear bombs, a lot of our artillery has depleted uranium shells…)