This is a follow up to my May blog on the Iran nuclear deal. The summit between the two leaders of the U.S.A. and North Korea took place in Singapore just five days ago, June 12, 2018. I thought it was a good start. I would have expected condescension and disrespect by the mainstream media, backed by the liberals, but not from the Wall Street Journal. It would be a sad day when the Wall Street Journal, the last bastion of fair-and-balanced print-news media, succumbs to the pressures of the latest development with Comcast (which owns NBC and Telemundo, both liberal media) proposing to buy Century Fox. This latest development comes on the heels of the Walt Disney Company (which owns NBC, another liberal media) having made an offer to buy Century Fox. Whichever company ends up buying Century Fox, it appears that Fox has no choice but to bend to the pressures of the predominantly-liberal media.
How easy it is for reporters, who are not charged with the responsibilities of implementing what has never been successfully done before, to trash the efforts being made by the current Administration! President Trump has let it be known that what he expects is a complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Think, for a moment, what an incredible challenge this is.
As a starter, in complete contrast to Donald J. Trump who is the leader of the free world, Kim Jong-un is not a leader that espouses Western values. Let’s make no mistake about it – he is a brutal dictator. He believes human rights apply only to him and no one else. During their reign, starting with Kim Il-sung, the grandfather, the Kim family has murdered hundreds of thousands of its own people, possibly even as high as over 3.5 million. A number of books written by North Korean defectors all depict the horrific conditions millions of people are having to endure under the Kim regime. Most North Koreans, who are not of privileged class, are starving to death. Kim Jong-un thinks nothing of murdering those who disagree with him, including his own family members. And, let’s not forget how an American college student, Otto Frederick Warmbier, was returned to the U.S. just before he died from injuries he had sustained while in prison, serving a 15-year sentence in North Korea. His crime was an attempted theft of a propaganda poster. North Korea has also abducted 17 Japanese citizens, released 5, but has yet to release the remaining 12.
While millions of his own people are starving, he has poured billions into developing nuclear weapons. Remember, he threatened to use them to get what he wanted; i.e., a meeting with the President of the United States of America. All denuclearization negotiations of the past with the Kim family have failed. Like Iran, they never lived up to their end of the bargain.
With hawks such as Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State) and John Bolton (National Security Advisor) working on it, I trust that President Trump will ultimately get what he has spelled out as his goal – a complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Finally, a President that understands how to deal with bullies and to keep peace through our military strengths. We, the silent majority, are all rooting for you, Mr. President!
Postscript
On July 23, 2018, GQ published an article entitled, “The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage.”
