What that
website demonstrates (if you have the time to read all of it) is that the North
Korean’s have never negotiated in good faith.
They have consistently made promises to get the United States
to provide them with food aid, nuclear plant development, and economic aid –
only to later back out of their promises.
The United States has bent over backwards in
multiple attempts to bring the North
Korea regime into the world community of
peaceful nations. Each attempt has been
thwarted by a regime that is so totally incompetent that its people are
starving while they maintain one of the largest armies in the world. North Korea maintains a standing
army of 1.1M. Compare that against the United States that
maintains a standing army of 500K. Now
consider the fact that the United States
has a population of 330M whereas the population of North Korea is 25M.
The North
Korean’s have repeatedly used “negotiations” to gain food and economic aid in
order to maintain their ongoing, incompetent management of a failing society. They have gone too far. It is time that the world stops the insanity
of negotiating with a regime that only takes what it can get with a promise and
then never delivers on their promises.
The world is a
crazy place. On Sunday the New York
Times reported that Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States
is pledging $123 million to fund the Syrian rebels. The Sunday New York Times also reported that
President Obama and President Putin of Russia
had a congenial phone call regarding participation on international terrorism
prevention (this story was related to the Russian ties of the Boston terrorists). This is the same Russia that is arming the Syrian
government and propping up the Syrian regime that we are providing millions of
dollars to bring down. However,
President Obama and President Putin can hold a congenial phone conversation regarding
terrorism as if we are on the same team.
The same
craziness exists in our relationship with China . We love the Chinese for lending us about $2
trillion so that we can purchase the products made in their factories using
trade secretes that the Chinese stole from our businesses. We are constantly courting the Chinese to be
better trade partners. At the same time,
the Chinese are propping up the North Korean regime because the Chinese do not
want the US army that is
parked in South Korea to be
in North Korea on the border
with China . Yes, the world is a crazy place.
Let us think
about the North Korean problem from a common sense viewpoint. The United
States does not want North
Korea to expand its nuclear arsenal, nor does it want North Korea to further develop missile
technology that could deliver one of their nuclear bombs to the shores of the United States . China
does not want the US
army in their back entrance way. China also wants to avoid refugees streaming
into China
due to the collapse of the North Korean economy, which is imminent. The North Korean leaders want money and
power. It is a shame that the North
Korean leaders cannot be bought with money alone – we could do that
quickly. However, people with egos big
enough to maintain a totalitarian society for as long as the North Korean’s
have do it for more than money – they love the ego trip the power gives them.
Okay, we need
to strike a deal with China
(not North Korea )
to get this problem solved. The Chinese love
the strong economy of South
Korea .
It provides the Chinese with a strong market where they can sell their
goods. North
Korea on the other hand, is a drain on China . China
has to supply North Korea
with free oil just to keep them afloat (and to prevent a wave of refugees into China ).
The deal with China
is simple: we agree that we will (based
on conditions) never move our military North of the current DMZ and, we will
provide huge economic assistance to develop the North Korean economy. Both we and China put up enough money to buy
off the North Korean leaders and China finds places of status for Kim Jong-un
and his top military leaders (within China’s government, state-run businesses,
and/or military). South Korea and North
Korea are reunited with the government of South Korea assimilating the people of North Korea much the same way that West Germany assimilated the people of East Germany at
the end of the cold war.
We get rid of
the nuclear threat and bad role model for the rest of the world that North Korea
has become. The Chinese get a larger
market to sell to (as the new Korea
becomes even more of a consumer market than South Korea is alone). The refugees remain in North Korea due to the promise of a
better future. And, more importantly,
the poor people of North
Korea gain freedom and economic opportunity
that their dictators have denied them for years.
The conditions
we set for never moving our military North of the DMZ are simple: China signs a peace treaty with the new Korea that includes China ’s
recognition of the new Korea
as a sovereign state and the Chinese do not interfere with the new Korea . Once this occurs, the United States provides humanitarian relief to
the people of North Korea
and our businesses take on the effort of developing the economy along with the
businesses of South Korea .
No more
negotiations with North
Korea .
It is time for three-party negotiations: the United
States , China ,
and South Korea .
Goodbye Kim
Jong-un.
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