Nork Nukes Nearing Nuisance?

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/Spy_Stations/status/986218664805523456

[OJsDad]

Does any one know why the war has never been officially ended before.  Is this another sign that NK leadership is feeling the pressure of the sanctions.

[Barthheart]

Does any one know why the war has never been officially ended before.  Is this another sign that NK leadership is feeling the pressure of the sanctions.

More likely feeling pressure from new Chinese leadership....

[Pete Dero]

Does any one know why the war has never been officially ended before. 

As far as I know they only signed a Truce.

On July 27, 1953, they signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, ending all acts of armed force in Korea. The agreement was not a peace treaty but a ceasefire.

By absence of peace you are still at war ...

[Sir Slash]

This way Little Kim can go tell everybody in N.Kor. that HE won the war.... finally.

[Nefaro]

Does any one know why the war has never been officially ended before. 

As far as I know they only signed a Truce.

On July 27, 1953, they signed the Korean Armistice Agreement, ending all acts of armed force in Korea. The agreement was not a peace treaty but a ceasefire.

By absence of peace you are still at war ...

Indeed.

It was just a ceasefire agreement that kept going on & on.

Of course, there were regular hostile incidents since then.

Also - the Nork leadership never gave up it's belief that they were, and should be, the rulers of the whole Korean peninsula.  They were never interested in a peace deal because they believed it was all theirs in the first place, and wouldn't sign anything because it would indicate that it was not.

Perhaps the many decades of NK getting run into the ground, combined with outside pressure, has finally loosened the sphincter.  When the usual appeasement of the Norks is taken off the table, they're now put in a black & white decision-making paradigm. 

[OJsDad]

North Korea says it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/20/north-korea-says-it-will-suspend-nuclear-and-long-range-missile-tests.html

[Staggerwing]

Chairman Xi finally yanked hard on the leash?

[bbmike]

Sure, we can all believe Dear Leader!  ::)

[JasonPratt]

I kind of believe him in this case. Whether he'll change his mind about building some credibility next week, who knows? But someone appears to have suggested that if he would just stop spending money on antagonizing the world suicidally, he could build a solid gold tower taller than some other tower in America with a world leader's name on it -- and that otherwise he can expect to be laser-bombed off the face of the Earth soon.

Besides, recent word over the past few months is that his nuclear program is an internal disaster with steadily more bullets being loaded into the revolver to spin and dry-click. Even he might see that he could end up nuking his own nation if he doesn't focus his ego and craziness somewhere else.

[Sir Slash]

I hear he's trying to get on American Idol next season. He's already won N. Korean Idol.... every year.

[mirth]

https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/north-koreas-nuclear-test-site-has-collapsed-chinese-scientists/

[OJsDad]

Kim Jong Un walks into South Korea to shake hands with Moon Jae-in

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/26/kim-jong-un-walks-into-south-korea-to-shake-hands-with-moon-jae-in.html

[Sir Slash]

Any chance Little Kim will defect to the south while he's there? Then he and Rodman can play together in the NBA. 

[Centurion40]

Kim Jong Un walks into South Korea to shake hands with Moon Jae-in

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/26/kim-jong-un-walks-into-south-korea-to-shake-hands-with-moon-jae-in.html

The photos and videos on all news sources are amazing.  But I couldn't help feeling like I was watching movie where the Norks were deliberately causing a distraction for a wide-scale invasion.