Could Pyongyang Trust Washington?

Date: 20 January 2019 - 21:44

News ID: ۶۲۲۸۷

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The US, especially its Chief Executive, is talking of the possibility of another summit with the Leader of North Korea, while the American press continues its propaganda of portraying Pyongyang as a threat to Washington’s security – diabolical policies indeed which raise questions about the sincerity of the White House.
North Korean leaders are well aware of the fact that they cannot trust the United States. Having been deceived once before during Bill Clinton’s presidency regarding its nuclear projects, Pyongyang ought to be extra cautious of the feelers and intentions of Washington.
How could North Korea scale down its atomic nuclear weapons capability when the US shows no signs of reducing its own stockpile of doomsday weapons?
Is the US prepared to practically dismantle part of its own weapons of mass destruction in order to prove its sincerity for peace, which requires withdrawal of its occupation troops from South Korea and other provocative acts of unwarranted military presence in East Asia.
In other words, the US is an unreliable partner, and it has long been one, even before Donald Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Paris agreement on climate change, the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) with Iran, and the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran (following the recent decision of the International Court of Justice against its illegal sanctions).
Trump has also ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico, and eventually a preliminary deal was reached out. The new name for the agreement will be the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
History is witness to the treaties that the US has signed but not ratified; signed and then unsigned, and even refused to sign after pushing everyone else to sign.
The Dotard in the White House thinks he is clever – all fools do – and might not realize the lasting damage he is causing to the US and to world peace, as villain of the piece in every matter.
Kim Jong-un knows better than to trust the US. The US has violated every treaty, every agreement, every accord, every pact, and every commitment it has made. In fact, it was the US that first nuclearized the Korean Peninsula in 1957 in violation of the 1953 Armistice Agreement.
If not for American meddling and greed to grab the lands of others, the Korean Peninsula would neither have witnessed war of 1950 nor its unnatural and illegal division in two parts at the 38th parallel – factors that are cause of the tension of the past seven decades.
Korea needs peace, and people on either side of the border, fed up with American mischief, are yearning for reunion, which the US doesn’t want.
North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol paid a rare visit to Washington and met with Trump and other top US officials on Friday. Later on it was announced by White House that Trump will meet with leader Kim in February for the second time after they held their first summit in Singapore last June.
Over six months have lapsed since then and nothing concrete has come out. Diplomacy is a necessity in international relations but deceit is deplorable. All said and done, Pyongyang needs to be on full alert while negotiating with either Trump or his team.