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NK's Kim would be stupid to give them up, see what happened to a guy a named Saddam and to another named Muammar. Assad, if not for Russia would have the next o
by onetimemanytime 9y ago
NK's Kim would be stupid to give them up, see what happened to a guy a named Saddam and to another named Muammar. Assad, if not for Russia would have the next one.
He can slow development down in return for aid...and milk them for decades.
- IIAOPSW 9y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. Obviously everyone wants peace but realistically doing what you said is the rational thing for NK to do and there is tons of historical precedent. The only state to ever denuclearize and not regret it is South Africa.
- pavlov 9y agoSweden had a nuclear weapons program in 1946-68, and probably doesn’t regret terminating it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_and_weapons_of_mass_d... It wasn’t close to delivering actual warheads though.
- bloak 9y agoBut is today's South Africa the same thing as the previous South Africa which had nuclear weapons? Are the people who authorised and developed South Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world?
- neuro_imager 9y agoSouth Africa didn't 'denuclearise' in the sense of giving up arms. They had a change to a completely incompetent government who wouldn't know how to spell 'nuclear' let alone fathom the scientific research and economic and political strategy required to run such a program. And given that nuclear scientists and competent political strategists tend to be smart, they don't hang around in swamps very long.
- vixen99 9y agoUsing downvotes as any kind of metric is usually (perhaps not always) nuts.
- Synaesthesia 9y agoIf the US stops threatening to attack, and stops putting nuclear weapons in the peninsula, then he wouldn’t need nuclear weapons.
- thefounder 9y agoHe won't get them
- i_am_nomad 9y agoNK’s nuclear weapons program advanced rapidly during the Obama Administration, but I am unaware of any time that Obama threatened to attack NK.
- Synaesthesia 9y agoObama personally may not have threatened NK but the US military sure did, performing its annual exercises. Obama also did not really change the generally hostile US posture towards NK.
- nsnick 9y agoThe US doesn't have nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula. George H W Bush removed them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/10/19/us-decides-to-withdraw-a-weapons-from-s-korea/3759ee3f-e9bf-4944-bfdf-2f9ea727b546/?utm_term=.4424586cfa7a https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/10/19/u...
- Synaesthesia 9y agoSorry you’re right
- PakG1 9y agoI can't find the article, but I read a while back a number of cases where certain heads of states denuclearized. Then the US left them high and dry when the tides turned and they were killed either by another country or by their own people who were angry about all the past oppression. Kim Jong Un is exactly in the second potential situation if he denuclearizes.
- icantdrive55 9y agoYea, that's why today's news suprised me. Kim Jung Un, and all the people propping him up know something we don't know. They are not stupid. The world knows what happened to Libya's dictator. Plus--Kim Jung Un looked scared. Almost like someone put a gun to his head, and said do exactly what we say? This story will be huge.
- bitcurious 9y agoNK was without nukes for the last five decades and experienced three changes in power in that time.
- ictoan 9y agoExcept the guy named Saddam was the president of a country that did NOT have WMD. Kim is smart because he knows Trump is a Putin puppet and Putin wants to use NK to destabilize China. China and NK are protecting themselves with this peace deal.