North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons By Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2018-07-09 at 17:20:59 )

North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons by Jacob G. Hornberger

With North Korea accusing Secretary of State (and former Central Intelligence Agency Director)) Mike Pompeo for engaging in "unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization," it should be increasingly obvious to most everyone that North Korea is not going to destroy its nuclear bombs.

This should not surprise anyone. The dumbest thing that North Korea could ever do is to destroy its nuclear capability.

One thing is for sure: No matter how brutal North Koreas communist regime is, it is not stupid. The North Koreans know that the second that they were to destroy their last nuclear bomb, North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un and his communist regime would become one great big nothing-burger in the eyes of President Trump and the United States national-security establishment.

Consider the following three dictators: Venezuelas Nicolas Maduro, Cubas Miguel Diaz-Canel, and Nicaraguas Daniel Ortega. Like Kim, they operate socialist-communist regimes in impoverished Third World countries. Like with North Korea, President Trump has imposed economic sanctions against all three regimes.

Suppose any of those three dictators were to say to President Trump, "I propose we meet in a summit in Singapore in order to work out our differences."

How would President Trump, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency respond?

They would either ignore the request or laugh and ridicule it. Why would President Trump travel to Singapore to meet with any of those three socialist-communist dictators? He would not.

There is a simple reason for that: In the eyes of President Trump and the United States national-security establishment, Maduro, Diaz-Canel, and Ortega are nothing more than nothing-burgers. Trump is not about to travel thousands of miles away to have a summit with a nothing-burger.

So, why did Trump travel to Singapore to meet with Kim??

Is he not just a dictator of a Third World country, just as Maduro, Diaz-Canel, and Ortega are? Of course he is, but there is one big difference: Kim has nuclear bombs and those other three communist-socialist dictators do not. That is why President Trump took the time to travel thousands of miles away to meet with Kim, where he showered him with compliments and accolades and even saluted one of his brutal communist generals.

Now, let us imagine the day that Kim were to destroy his last nuclear bomb. On that day, Kim would revert to the status of a nothing-burger, the same status that those other three socialist-communist dictators have.

Ask yourself: Why would Kim be willing to give up his nuclear bombs in return for becoming a nothing-burger in the eyes of the president of the United States, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency, especially since by becoming a nothing-burger could mean no more summits and no more compliments and accolades.

One possible answer is that North Korea might believe that President Trump would fulfill his promise to bring condos to North Korean beaches and to bring economic prosperity to North Korea. Even if that were true, would North Korea really wish to become a nothing-burger in return for a promise by United States officials to turn North Korea into an economic paradise?

And, after all, how would President Trump accomplish that, especially since Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, which do not have nuclear weapons, are nonetheless economic basket cases? Would he somehow make North Koreas socialist economic system work? Would he have the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon build the condos? Would he send in a gigantic welfare check, compliments of American taxpayers? Would he force United States builders to go to North Korea to develop their country?

More important, how can North Korea be assured that President Trump and other United States officials will continue to treat North Korea with respect, compliments, and accolades after it becomes a nothing-burger?

President Trump and his officials do not treat Maduro, Diaz-Canel, and Ortega with respect, compliments, and accolades. They treat them like nothing-burgers. Why should North Korea think that it would not be treated in the same way the minute it too becomes a nothing-burger country.

Think of this way. Suppose the United States government ordered every American to turn in his guns to the federal government, just as it did with peoples gold in the 1930s. The government promises that if Americans comply with the order, the government will keep them safe and secure and will never do anything bad to them.

In fact, for many Americans it is inconceivable that the federal government would ever do anything bad to American citizens. For them, there would be no problem in trusting the federal government, including the troops, who they effusively thank for their service. They would wholeheartedly endorse the nationalization and confiscation of everyones guns.

So, let us assume it happens. The American people are totally disarmed. The only ones who have the guns are the government and the police. What happens if there is a crisis in which the president orders the troops to begin rounding up people and putting them into camps, where they are tortured, Abu-Ghraibed, abused, incarcerated indefinitely, or even executed without a trial or due process of law? What if the courts and the Congress go silent or even supportive, as they historically have during times of crisis?

At that point, could Americans say, "We made a mistake in surrendering our guns to the government. Can we have them back"? Sure, they could say it, but it would not do any good. The government would not give the guns back to the people. Agreeing to disarm is a mistake that people can make only once.

Is the United States government capable of doing such things??

They have done such things. They rounded up innocent Americans in the crisis of World War II and kept them jailed without a trial or due process of law. They Abu Ghraibed people in Baghdad, after having converted Saddam Husseins brutal prison for their own brutal use. They installed into power and enthusiastically supported Chiles military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, whose goons rounded up, raped, tortured, abused, disappeared, or executed thousands of innocent people. They continue to maintain their prison, torture center, and kangaroo "judicial" system at Gitmo in Cuba.

Any government, including the United States government, is capable of anything given the right circumstances. Our American ancestors understood that. That is why they enacted the Second Amendment - to provide an insurance policy against the possibility of tyranny.

They knew that government officials, including democratically elected ones, were capable of anything, especially during times of war and other crises. They knew that widespread gun ownership would serve as a deterrent to tyranny or, if things got bad, would serve as a means of self-defense against a tyrant and his army. When regimes know that the citizenry has the means of defending itself, they act accordingly.

The situation with North Korea is no different. The North Koreans acquired nuclear bombs for one reason alone: to deter United States officials from attacking and invading North Korea or, if that failed, to provide them a means of defending themselves. So far, their strategy of deterrence has worked.

What might be easy to forget is that it was not North Korea who started this latest brouhaha. It was President Trump who started it. North Korea was never threatening to initiate a nuclear war against the United States. It still is not. All that North Korea was saying was: If you start a war with us, we will defend ourselves with nuclear bombs fired at you.

That is defense, not offense. President Trump turned that attitude into a crisis. Recall that he stirred up the crisis by maintaining that North Koreas mere possession of nuclear weapons threatened United States "national security." He publicly demanded that North Korea destroy its nuclear weapons , or else.

The "else" meant: If you do not destroy your nuclear bombs, as we have ordered you to do, United States bombers will destroy them for you and, if you respond with nuclear weapons, we will flatten your entire country with nuclear fire and fury. President Trump even brought war hawk John Bolton, who has long publicly favored a regime-change operation against North Korea, into his administration to show that he was not bluffing.

But President Trump was bluffing, fortunately for everyone. And once he realized that North Korea was not going to back down and was willing to go to nuclear war, President Trump realized that he had painted himself into a corner. That is when he decided to accept Kims invitation to meet in Singapore, where he instantly became Best Friends Forever with one of the most brutal communist dictators in the world, much more brutal than Maduro, Diaz-Canel, and Ortega. Never mind that it was President Trump himself who started the entire brouhaha in the first place and who ending up resolving the crisis that he himself started.

So, here we are in the same situation in which we were in before President Trump initiated the brouhaha. North Korea still has its nuclear bombs but President Trump says that they do not pose a threat to United States national security and that every American can now sleep well.

But what he obviously fails to recognize is that North Koreas nuclear bombs have never posed a threat to United States "national security" because North Korea never had any intention of using them to start a war with the United States because Kim knows that if he were to start a war with the United States, his entire country would be carpet-bombed with nuclear bombs.

At most, North Koreas nuclear bombs posed a defensive threat to any plans by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon (and Bolton) to initiate one of their storied regime-change operations against North Korea.

The situation was the same with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Concerned about the possibility that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency would invade Cuba, Cuban President Fidel Castro invited the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles on the island to deter an attack or, if that failed, to provide a means of defense. United States officials have always maintained that the missiles were "offensive" missiles, implying that they posed a threat to United States "national security." That is false.

The missiles were entirely defensive. Their aim was to deter an attack or defend against a United States attack. As soon as President Kennedy vowed that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency would not attack or invade Cuba again, the nuclear missiles were withdrawn.

Thus, what many acolytes of the United States national-security establishment fail to recognize today is that it was the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, not Cuba, that was the root cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Since the very beginning in the 1950s, the United States government has been an interventionist buttinski regime in Korea, butting in to a civil war that was - and is - none of its business, just like it did in Vietnam. It has no legitimate role in butting in and trying to resolve Koreas civil war. No one died and made the United States government the worlds international policeman, interloper, intervener, judge, jury, torturer, invader, resolver, executioner, or buttinksi.

What should President Trump do? He should butt out of Korea by immediately bringing all United States troops home. Leave Korea to the Koreans. That is the best way to arrive at a satisfactory resolution of Koreas civil war.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!