Who 'Provoked And Destabilized' North Korea? China?

[Brian4Liberty]

Who 'Provoked And Destabilized' North Korea? China?

As President Trump reportedly considers "kinetic military action" against North Korea, we must look at how we got to this point. What are we doing in the region? Is a US first-strike the solution to North Korea's nuclear ambitions?

[shakey1]

People don’t respond positively to hectoring, intimidation and cruelty, in fact, they deeply resent it and fight back. And, yet, this is exactly the way Washington has treated North Korea for the last 64 years. Washington’s policy towards the DPRK is not comprised of “carrots and sticks”; it’s sticks and bigger sticks. It’s entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.But the policy hasn’t worked, has it, because now the North has nuclear weapons, which is precisely the outcome that Washington wanted to avoid. So we don’t even have to make the case that US policy is a flop, because the North’s nuclear arsenal does that for us.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/...kes-yes-or-no/

[phill4paul]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/...kes-yes-or-no/

Could just as easily been re-written...

Washington’s policy towards the DPRK American citizens is not comprised of “carrots and sticks”; it’s sticks and bigger sticks. It’s entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force

It's all they know.

[AZJoe]