Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 31-May-2019 World View: North Korea may have killed denuclearization negotiator as punishment

• Chief negotiator Kim Yong-chol (L) and Kim Hyok-chol, another
  negotiator

• Kim Yo-jong, the dictator's younger sister, along with Kim
  Song-hye, and Shin Hye-yong, the negotiators' female support
  group

According to the South Korean news service, Chosun Ilbo, North Korea's
child dictator Kim Jong-un has executed the North's chief negotiator,
as punishment for the failed February 28 summit president Donald
Trump.

Some analysts are pointing out that some previous reports of North
Korean executions have turned out not be true. The US is attempting
to verify whether that execution actually took place. In fact, there
are reports that the entire negotiating team, both men and women, have
been told to "lay low," although only chief negotiator Kim Yong-chol
is said to be dead.

There's no doubt that Kim's entire "charm offensive" strategy that
he's been following for the last year and a half completely crashed
and burned at the Hanoi summit. That was the moment when Kim was
going to diplomatically force Trump to agree to remove at least some
of the sanctions, with nothing in return. That would have been a
major global diplomatic victory for Kim, and would have enormously
humiliated Trump in the same way that Kim's father had humiliated
president George Bush. Instead, Trump refused, and instead demanded
that Kim at least take the simple step of providing a list of all the
nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development and test site. Kim
refused, and the Hanoi summit collapsed.

Instead, it was Kim that was enormously humiliated, and since then
it's been clear that Kim has no further strategy. Kim has simply
lost, and has nowhere to go.

The one place that Kim might have to go is to resume open testing of
nuclear weapons or long-range ballistic missiles. That would cause a
major international crisis. All signs are that China is opposed to
any such move by North Korea, because it would bring more American
forces into the region, and China would like fewer American forces.

It was just a week ago that North Korea announced that all
negotiations with the US were over, and the new reports would seem to
provide very strong confirmation of that.

According to the official North Korean Rodong Sinmun:

Quote: "Acting like one is revering the leader in front but
dreaming of something else when one turns around is an anti-party,
anti-revolutionary act that has thrown away the moral fidelity
toward the leader, and such people will not avoid the stern
judgment of the revolution.

There are traitors and turncoats who only memorize words of
loyalty toward the leader and even change according to the trend
of the time."

I guess the ultimate crime in North Korea is to dream of something
else except Kim Jong-un.

At any rate, there are two conclusions: (1) there is no expectation
that the UN and US sanctions targeting North Korea are going to be
lifted any time soon; and (2) North Korea's government is in total
chaos, and may do something desperate.


----- Sources:

-- North Korea / Kim Jong-un 'Brutally Purged Officials' After Failed
Summit
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html...01126.html
(Chosun Ilbo, South Korea, 31-May-2019)


----- Related:

-- 24-May-2019 World View: Kim Jong-un says N. Korea denuclearization talks are over
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?...845#p45845