Eindelijk na alle hysterie over de raketten die Noord-Korea heeft afgeschoten, heeft VS generaal Paul Selva voor een Senaatscommissie toegegeven dat de raketten van Noord-Korea uiterst ineffectief zijn, m.a.w. de raketten zijn waardeloos en kunnen geen strategische doelen in de VS raken. Sterker nog: de bewering dat Noord-Korea met raketten Alaska of andere delen van de VS zou kunnen raken, zijn zwaar overdreven……..
Jammer dat James Holbrooks, de schrijver van het onderstaande Anti-Media artikel, niet wijst op het feit dat Noord-Korea niet eens een atoombom heeft, laat staan dat ze kernkoppen kunnen maken, die een raket zou kunnen vervoeren……
Na een ondergrondse kernproef kan tot een aantal dagen na de proef radioactieve straling worden gemeten, boven de plek waar de proef plaatsvond. Deze straling is te meten met satellieten, echter tot dusver is er nooit radioactieve straling gemeld boven de plek waar de kernproef plaatsvond, reken maar dat als dit wel het geval was geweest, dit het nieuws zou hebben gehaald! Kortom: Noord-Korea heeft niet eens een atoombom. Overigens zou je dit ook kunnen afleiden uit de stelling van de VS, dat Noord-Korea moet ophouden met het ontwikkelen van kernwapens………
Deskundigen hebben al vaker gesteld, dat je met een gigantische hoeveelheid springstof een ondergrondse kernproef kan nabootsen, inclusief de aardbeving die de kracht van een atoombom aangeeft…..
Holbrooks wijt de wat soepeler opstelling van de VS o.a. aan de onderhandelingen van de VS met China over de import van Chinese goederen op de VS markt en uiteraard het omgekeerde. Zo zou Trump geïmporteerd staal uit China extra willen belasten. Bovendien is de nieuwe Zuid-Koreaanse president, Moon Jae-in, voor onderhandelingen met Noord-Korea, i.p.v. het opleggen van sancties en het dreigen met militair geweld, een zaak waar de VS rekening mee heeft te houden.
Het is te hopen dat Moon Jae-in een eind maakt aan het jaarlijkse treiteren van Noord-Korea, met grootschalige militaire oefeningen langs de grens van Noord-Korea en de territoriale wateren van dat land door de VS en Zuid-Korea……. Oefeningen waarbij ook raketten worden afgeschoten….. Vergeet niet dat de wil van Noord-Korea om een atoombom te ontwikkelen voortkomt uit angst voor de agressie van de VS, een angst die allesbehalve onzinnig is gezien het aantal illegale oorlogen dat de VS sinds 1945 is begonnen……….
The
Latest: US Official Admits North Korean Missiles Aren’t Threat to
America
July
19, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Written
by James
Holbrooks
(ANTIMEDIA) — Geopolitical
moves are being made on the issue of North Korea. A day after South
Korea’s new government offered to
hold military talks with its neighbor to the North, the United
States’ second-highest ranking military official admitted Tuesday
that North Korean missiles lack the accuracy to effectively target
U.S. cities.
On
Monday, South Korea’s defense ministry proposed that
representatives from both the South and North Korean militaries meet
at the border village of Panmunjom in North Korea for talks
“We
make the proposal for a meeting…aimed at stopping all hostile
activities that escalate military tension along the land
border,” South
Korea’s defense ministry said in
a statement.
The
man in charge of North Korean affairs, unification minister Cho
Myoung-gyon, said his country “would
not seek collapse of the North or unification through absorbing the
North” and suggested a
positive response from Kim Jong-un’s government would represent a
show of good faith.
“North
Korea should respond to our sincere proposals if it really seeks
peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Cho
said, adding that if “North
Korea chooses the right path, we would like to open the door for a
brighter future for North Korea, together, by cooperating with the
international community.”
The
defense ministry’s overture falls in line with
the approach advocated
by new South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who supports diplomatic
talks with the North led by South Korea.
Recently,
ahead of the G20 summit in Germany, Moon stated that “the
need for dialogue” with
North Korea is “more
pressing than ever before” because
the situation had “reached
the tipping point of the vicious cycle of military escalation.”
North
Korea has yet to respond to the South’s proposal.
Meanwhile,
on Tuesday, the primary driver of the “evil North Korea”
narrative, United States appeared to go against the grain and
actually downplayed the effectiveness of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear
weapons program — or, at least, one senior official defense
official did. From Reuters:
“North
Korea does not have the ability to strike the United States with ‘any
degree of accuracy’ and while its missiles have the range, they
lack the necessary guidance capability, the vice chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday.”
Speaking
before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Paul
Selva said North
Korea’s July 4 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test
showed that the country has no hope of hitting a U.S. target with
any “reasonable
confidence of success” and
that recent talk about its ability to strike Alaska or the Pacific
Northwest is overblown:
“What
the experts tell me is that the North Koreans have yet to demonstrate
the capacity to do the guidance and control that would be required.”
While
the general’s admission isn’t on the same level as the actual act
of diplomacy just demonstrated by South Korea, the fact that the U.S.
military is walking back — even if only just a step or two — a
narrative it fought so hard to establish is itself worthy of
commentary.
So
what gives? Why, in the last two days, have both the U.S. and ally
South Korea suddenly taken a softer line — again, in their own ways
— on the North Korea issue? Are all parties concerned about to
knock off the rhetoric and allow the Hermit Kingdom to continue to
fire missiles into the sea?
Not
likely. As with most other issues of geopolitical significance in
that region of the world, these moves likely have far more to do with
China.
On
Wednesday, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping
will meet in
Washington, D.C., for annual bilateral talks, this year dubbed the
“U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue.” It will be the
third meeting between the two men, after Xi’s visit to
Mar-a-Lago three months ago and their discussions on
the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany.
Recently,
Trump reignited concern over a trade war between the U.S. and China
when he said he was considering slapping
import tariffs on steel. But these kinds of tactics are nothing new
ahead of economic negotiations, as the Washington
Post noted last
Friday:
“In
1981, the Reagan administration convinced Japan to reduce the number
of cars it was exporting to the United States in a bid to boost the
U.S. auto sector. In 1984, the administration used the tactic again
with the steel industry, as it told dozens of countries to either
limit their steel shipments to the United States or lose access to
the American market.”
In
an article published Sunday titled “U.S.-China trade talks
sputtering at 100-day deadline,” Reuters outlined how
results from economic negotiations between the two countries have
been less than encouraging since Trump and Xi first met at
Mar-a-Lago. The general consensus is
that Donald Trump needs a major win with China to prove he’s
sticking to the “America first” guns that got him into the White
House.
Noting
that “North
Korea has cast a long shadow over the relationship” between
Trump and Xi, Reuters points
out that
the Hermit Kingdom and its nuclear weapons program have been a
hindrance to cooperation for the U.S. president:
“Trump
has linked progress in trade to China’s ability to rein in North
Korea, which counts on Beijing as its chief friend and ally.”
On
Tuesday, the Associated
Press also highlighted how
Trump has used the issue of North Korea as a bargaining chip at the
negotiating table with China:
“As
a presidential candidate, Trump attacked China for refusing to
pressure Pyongyang to back off from developing nuclear weapons. After
the Mar-a-Lago summit, though, Trump praised Beijing for agreeing to
help deal with North Korea. As a reward, he abandoned his vow to
accuse China of manipulating its currency to benefit Chinese
exporters.”
So
it may be that this one-two punch from the United States and ally
South Korea was a coordinated effort to ease tensions and create an
atmosphere conducive to cooperation ahead of critical negotiations
between the U.S. and China.
It
may be that the Trump administration is signaling that it would be
willing to back off on pressuring China to rein in Kim Jong-un if
China is willing to make concessions on the economic front — and
give Trump the win he needs.
Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
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Zie ook: ‘Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K…….‘
en: ‘Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..‘ en: ‘NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea……. Ofwel: ‘fake news’ op en top!!‘ en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva…….‘ en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..‘