Beware when the general smiles like that.
posted at 8:31 am on April 1, 2017 by Andrew Malcolm
It’s unclear what North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un pays close attention to, other than expensive hampagne and any domestic rivals he even suspects of ambitions. They’ve been executed by anti-aircraft gun.
Kim might be tempted to try something dangerous on the Korean Peninsula given the current political turmoil, impeachment and arrest of South Korea’s president on corruption charges.
But if Kim was paying attention to the new Trump administration, he would have noticed that in the past month, not by coincidence, the new president’s top two national defense/foreign policy aides both visited South Korea. And both talked far tougher than the previous administration about Kim’s erratic behavior, nuclear weapons development and threats to both their South Korean neighbor and the United States.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that the era of “strategic patience” had been terminated and all reactions to a communist attack remained on the table. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a former general himself, said:
“Right now, (North Korea) appears to be going in a very reckless manner … and that has got to be stopped.
