In the past, the US stance on North Korea gone from the ‘appeasement’ during the Clinton Era, “Axis of Evil” Era during Bush Era and “Strategic Patience” during the Obama Era. In the advent of Bush Era and Obama era, the US has been trying to hatch a plan of trying to overthrow the North Korean government, very much like what happened to Syria and Libya years after the “Axis of Evil” speech.
The US, South Korea and Japan has been pushing for regime change while China has been pushing for talks and the status quo. Up to this point, North Korea has little threat to the mainland US, but has ballistic missiles to go against South Korea and Japan. In the latest Nuclear test by North Korea, they claimed that they had built a nuclear fusion bomb that can be installed on top of an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). What has changed is that North Korea has the capability to go after large cities within the continental US.
What I am surprised is that South Korea favors dialogue with North Korea and Trump blamed South Korea that “appeasement does not work.”
http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-south-korean-president-wants-make-peace-not-war-659669
Meanwhile, China has been blaming the US for not having a dialogue with North Korea which caused this mess.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/09/05/2017090501307.html
Russia agreeing with China and warns of “Global Catastophe.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/asia/north-korea-putin/index.html
What I am now starting to find that some western sources now start favoring dialogue instead of doing the same thing over the past few years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/05/america-north-korea-diplomacy-negotiation
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/south-korea-north-korea/538815/
I do believe that this is a turning point where the US will start to give up is grandiose ambitions of taking over North Korea. Considering that China and Russia is condemning more on the US and South Korea for not acting and the US did little after the latest nuclear test, we will see a change in a few months or years.
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