Kim Jong Un is once again showing the US exactly how disinterested he is in negotiating any settlement – particularly one that ultimately forces North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons: To wit, Kim ordered more rockets and warheads during a televised visit to a local munitions factory just hours after Secretary of Defense James Mattis praised Kim’s ‘restraint’ for not having launched any new missile strikes since the latest round of UN sanctions took effect on Aug. 5. Mattis also reiterated that the Trump administration would be open to talks.
Here’s Mattis (via the Wall Street Journal):
‘I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we have not seen in the past,’ Mr. Tillerson said in a news briefing in Washington. ‘We hope that this is the beginning of this signal that we have been looking for.’
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 23, 2017.
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