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Th following article is an op-ed on North Korea\u2019s attitude toward the USA\/.South Korea and the possibilities down the road.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/01\/07\/what-the-iran-confrontation-means-for-indopacom-and-north-korea\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0\u00a0Iran isn\u2019t the only adversary the Trump administration has said it is ready to fight. The same day the Pentagon announced Iran\u2019s Quds Force commander\u00a0Qassem Soleimani<\/a>\u00a0was killed, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in an interview with Fox News that the U.S. \u201cis prepared to exert military force if needed\u201d against Pyongyang.<\/p>\n But what do Esper\u2019s comments and the confrontation with Iran mean for North Korea and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, as the U.S. seeks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula?<\/p>\n So far, military and foreign policy experts don\u2019t expect immediate or major changes from INDOPACOM in dealing with\u00a0North Korea<\/a>, nor do they believe that there is yet cause for concern that a similar situation in the\u00a0Middle East<\/a>\u00a0will erupt in the Pacific.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s business as usual, but proceed with caution,\u201d Rick Lamb, a retired Army Green Beret command sergeant major, told Military Times.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the time-tested \u2018Ranger Rule\u2019 from the French and Indian War of 1754,” said Lamb, who was stationed in South Korea in the 1980s and served as a civilian adviser to Special Operations Command-Korea from 2015 to 2017. \u201c’Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute\u2019s warning.\u2019 Lean forward…and hang on.\u201d – article<\/p>\n As I indicated last week, Fatty Kim da T’ird has announced publicly that he is returning to his nuke missile testing program ASAP.<\/p>\n While he has not yet engaged in the harassment of South Korea the way his father did, his attempts to impress people with his missile program has alarmed the people of Japan, among others. The fact that he is, and has been for some time, nuclear-capable is a red flag that requires attention, as well as something that he can use as a bargaining chip if necessary. He is perfectly capable of making a deal with iran in regard to nukes and may see that as an alternate to dealing with the USA.<\/p>\n While he has yet to launch anything, his motivation is getting attention from the USA, the historical enemy of North Korea, above all else. When Trump vacated the meetings with Kim, without giving him what His Tubbiness wanted and without Trump getting what he wanted, it was a stalemate rather than an end to the talks. This grandstanding proposed show of force is just that: grandstanding and look-at-me! stuff.<\/p>\n The real concern is that since Kim is nuclear-capable, and he’s not getting what he wants from us, there is no bar to his negotiating for what he wants with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"