(Conservative Tribune) – The commander of U. S. Forces Korea said Saturday that North Korea has “signaled a change in direction,” insisting that…
(Conservative Tribune) – The commander of U. S. Forces Korea said Saturday that North Korea has “signaled a change in direction,” insisting that the U. S. will take North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word.”
North Korea has “signaled a change in direction” since its last weapons test in November 2017.
“(It is) perhaps a change in calculus that we had been looking for,” Gen. Vincent Brooks said at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado.
The North Korean leader “has really demonstrated he is a man of his word in a number of ways,” the general said, noting that North Korea has “gone now 235 days without a provocation.”
“We will take him at his word,” he added, “The lack of trust is the enemy we now have to defeat.”
The North’s last weapons test occurred on Nov. 29,2017 and involved the new Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile — a powerful weapon theoretically able to range the entire continental U. S.
The general acknowledged reports that North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development programs are still operational, but he expressed optimism, arguing that,while the North may still be advancing its weapons programs, the desire to use the weapons developed has changed.
