You sound like the US has done nothing but let the NK do their thing.
An unresounding yes. The strategic gap has grown. The reason why no one really cares about NK nuclear development is because the entire NK nuclear arsenal is vulnerable to an SK first strike (and Japanese for that matter), conventional as it may ... and that gap grew bigger in the last year. KJU's hoopla about SK-US military exercies is not without warrant.
KJU's nukes had been neutered and he knows it.
An unresounding yes. The strategic gap has grown. The reason why no one really cares about NK nuclear development is because the entire NK nuclear arsenal is vulnerable to an SK first strike (and Japanese for that matter), conventional as it may ... and that gap grew bigger in the last year. KJU's hoopla about SK-US military exercies is not without warrant.
KJU's nukes had been neutered and he knows it.
I should know; I participated in the "training event" that replaced the exercises.
-strategically-, we're not better off. obviously North Korea continues to develop nuke and missile tech-- that's not changed. the US is not closer, and actually further away, from the goal of denuclearization. to be fair, this is something that doesn't really have a solution absent regime change. re: the vulnerability of the NK nuclear arsenal vs US/SK/Japan conventional capabilities, that's simply moving the goalposts (and plus, is something that I'm not going to discuss here).
ultimately the reason why the US presses for denuclearization and South Korea doesn't, is because the US wants to make sure that KJU can't hold something over the US, the way that KJU holds long-range artillery against Seoul. i think KJU is justified in feeling that he's safer than before.
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