However, Kim’s new year’s overture and the seemingly less truculent tone taken by Trump in his January interview with The Wall Street Journal (“I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un”) have been accompanied by suggestions by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that there are ongoing back-channel communications with Pyongyang. presently has all three types of its strategic bombers stationed in Guam, including the B-52 and B-2, both of which can deliver nuclear weapons. military are carrying out training exercises that emphasize the kinds of operations that an attack on North Korea would involve. war planners are refining their options for a strike even as key elements of the U.S. 15, The New York Times reported that U.S. would not hesitate to launch a much larger strike if provoked. In early January, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration is considering a so-called “bloody-nose” strike against North Korea, a limited attack on missile launch sites intended to humiliate Kim and convince him that the U.S.
President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un exchanged harsh and provocative messages. In November, North Korea tested a new and larger intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong 15, with a range that could certainly include the West Coast and, depending on the payload, could well include the whole continental United States. These dire sentiments and scares come on the heels of an intense period in Korean-U.S. Just days earlier, Hawaiians were accidently sent an emergency alert that nuclear missiles were inbound, and a similar mix-up occurred days later in Japan. It is difficult to believe that the Holy Father was not thinking of the Korean Peninsula. One accident is enough to precipitate things.” When asked if he was worried about nuclear war, the Pope replied, “I think we are at the very limit.
15, gave reporters on the plane a striking gift - a haunting photograph of a Japanese boy carrying the body of his dead brother after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Just how fraught the situation has become was indicated when aides to Pope Francis, on the way to his apostolic visit to Chile Jan. table tennis team to China, which was a precursor to the talks that led to President Nixon’s pathbreaking visit in 1972. This might be thought of as an example of “Ping-Pong diplomacy,” an allusion to the 1971 visit of the U.S. Just weeks ago, officials expressed concerns that North Korea might actually attempt to sabotage the Pyeongchang games, as they did before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. and its South Korean ally over Kim’s aggressive development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. These developments are quite sudden and raise the question of whether they indicate a general thaw in the standoff between North Korea and the U.S. The move comes as a result of renewed talks between the two governments following a proposal made by North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, in his new year’s address. 17 that not only will a delegation from North Korea march with South Korean athletes in the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games set to begin in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month under a flag depicting the whole Korean Peninsula, but the two countries will field a single women’s ice hockey team in the games.
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