And the war of the words continues. On Monday, October 9, President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States has not been successful in its handling of the North Korean threat for the past 25 years.
“Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing,” Trump tweeted, adding that “policy didn’t work.”
Monday’s tweet should not come as a total surprise as the president made similar comments this past weekend, saying “only one thing” would rein in North Korea’s missile development and nuclear programs. If Trump was hoping to keep North Korea guessing with these comments, he also left a handful of Americans puzzled as well.
“Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, making fools of U.S. negotiators,” Trump tweeted on Saturday.
Meanwhile, dictator Kim Jong Un dubbed North Korea’s nuclear weapons program a “powerful deterrent” that guarantees its dominance.
Trump’s latest threats increase the risk of miscalculation by leading Kim Jong Un to think the United States is about to attack his country, Jeffrey Lewis said, an analyst at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Lewis says that if he feared an attack was forthcoming, he might order a pre-emptive attack.
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