North Korea suspicious of US intention to solve nuclear standoff: Analyst
An analyst believes Pyongyang is very “suspicious” of the United States' intention to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, given the fact that Washington has a “long history” of reneging on its agreements.
“So unfortunately one of the problems that does not get mentioned in the US media is the US has a long history of making agreements that suited at the time but then they do not really feel any obligation to honor later on down the road and when you have a huge military and you have powerful allies like NATO and the EU, there is really no one that is going to challenge you and you can bet your boots that the North Koreans would be very, very suspicious of any agreement that has got the US’s name on it,” Jim Dean, managing editor of Veterans Today told Press TV’s ‘DPRK As It Is’ program.
He also recalled the situation in Libya where the United States negotiated with former dictator Muammar Gaddafi to stop his nuclear program and not too many years later there was a regime change in the country.
Dean further opined that the real target of the United States in the whole North Korean crisis may be to send more military power close to China and Russia rather than seeking a solution for the country’s nuclear issue.
Therefore, he concluded, if this is Washington’s end goal, it will not seek a solution because afterwards there would be demands for the US to pull back its huge forward military deployment in that region which it would never want to do.
Tensions have been running high between North Korea, which is continuing to develop its missile and nuclear programs, and the US, which is opposed to those programs.
Pyongyang says it will not give up on its missile and nuclear deterrence unless Washington ends its hostile policy toward the country and dissolves the US-led UN command in South Korea. Thousands of US soldiers are stationed in South Korea and Japan.
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