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Ricky Lim ·
Singapore
US President Donald Trump's notoriously threatening rhetoric towards nuclear-armed North Korea - which has drawn comparisons with Richard Nixon's "madman theory" of diplomacy - may deserve some credit for bringing Pyongyang to talks, analysts have said.
At the same time Trump was blamed for heightening tensions with his threats to rain "fire and fury" on the North - now the title of an incendiary book on his presidency - and assertions that its leader Kim Jong-Un was on a "suicide mission".
US President Donald Trump's notoriously threatening rhetoric towards nuclear-armed North Korea - which has drawn comparisons with Richard Nixon's "madman theory" of diplomacy - may deserve some credit for bringing Pyongyang to talks, analysts have said.
At the same time Trump was blamed for heightening tensions with his threats to rain "fire and fury" on the North - now the title of an incendiary book on his presidency - and assertions that its leader Kim Jong-Un was on a "suicide mission".
But some analysts now say that despite the hermit state's achievements and the defiance of its propaganda, Trump's chest-thumping provoked real fears within the North's elites, pushing them to seek ways to dial down tension.
At the UN General Assembly he raised the prospect the US would "totally destroy" North Korea, prompting Kim to respond with a personal pledge to "surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
"Never before have two leaders in command of nuclear arsenals more closely evoked a professional wrestling match," wrote a New Yorker columnist at the time.
As his top diplomat sought an opening with Pyongyang in October, the president tweeted: "I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man" - his nickname for Kim.
"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what needs to be done!" he added.
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It is thus so urgent for SKorea to reinstall the military hotline with NKorea.
Because the post mortem of the just averted nuclear crisis is a very close call.
Nuclear leak documented to have contaminated 3,000 km radius - if nuke exploded in N Korea, half Thailand will affected.
Fukushima leak travel 10,000 km to US coast.
Above ground nuclear explosion is more damaging. US 1 nuke bomber carry 16 nukes. 1 minuteman has 10 nuke warhead.
Each is 25 times more powerful than atomic bomb.
US has perfected the bombing run and NKorea radar is not able to detect any single run.
To fully neutralize NKorea mobile nuke launcher, more than 10 nukes will need to be drop.
Guess will whole of AsiaPac survive?
How we live, work, play, enjoy, eat, sleep and say happy new year will no longer be relevant.
2018 could be our last on Earth.
Thus it is very crucial to stop the Korean war.
With this scenario, will China and Russia sit still and do nothing?
WW3 will have erupted and humanity will cease to exist.
2018 would have become the Judgement day.
Actually humanity has just escape extinction - very close call.
So Korea peace must succeed.
Social media did play a part and must continue to play a part in forging peace.
Not leave it to the 2 juvenile delinquent to sort things out.
At the UN General Assembly he raised the prospect the US would "totally destroy" North Korea, prompting Kim to respond with a personal pledge to "surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
"Never before have two leaders in command of nuclear arsenals more closely evoked a professional wrestling match," wrote a New Yorker columnist at the time.
As his top diplomat sought an opening with Pyongyang in October, the president tweeted: "I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man" - his nickname for Kim.
"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what needs to be done!" he added.
--
It is thus so urgent for SKorea to reinstall the military hotline with NKorea.
Because the post mortem of the just averted nuclear crisis is a very close call.
Nuclear leak documented to have contaminated 3,000 km radius - if nuke exploded in N Korea, half Thailand will affected.
Fukushima leak travel 10,000 km to US coast.
Above ground nuclear explosion is more damaging. US 1 nuke bomber carry 16 nukes. 1 minuteman has 10 nuke warhead.
Each is 25 times more powerful than atomic bomb.
US has perfected the bombing run and NKorea radar is not able to detect any single run.
To fully neutralize NKorea mobile nuke launcher, more than 10 nukes will need to be drop.
Guess will whole of AsiaPac survive?
How we live, work, play, enjoy, eat, sleep and say happy new year will no longer be relevant.
2018 could be our last on Earth.
Thus it is very crucial to stop the Korean war.
With this scenario, will China and Russia sit still and do nothing?
WW3 will have erupted and humanity will cease to exist.
2018 would have become the Judgement day.
Actually humanity has just escape extinction - very close call.
So Korea peace must succeed.
Social media did play a part and must continue to play a part in forging peace.
Not leave it to the 2 juvenile delinquent to sort things out.
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