My latest for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social: Diplomacy or Deception? Trump’s North Korea Strategy
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Diplomacy or Deception? Trump’s North Korea Strategy
Nogok-ri is a small hamlet on the northern edges of Pocheon, a city of roughly 160,000 people less than 20 miles from the DMZ. Most of the city’s residents are employed by the city’s farms and factori...
![Korean pilots- all highly experienced, many with more than 2,000 hours, arrived in Egypt in June and were operating by July. Israel or her ally [the United States] soon monitored their communications, of course, and on August 15 announced their presence. To my regret, our leadership would never confirm it. The Koreans were probably the smallest international military reinforcement in history: only 20 pilots, eight controllers, five interpreters, three administrative men, a political advisor, a doctor and a cook. But their effect was disproportionate. They had two or three encounters with the Israelis in August and September and about the same number in the war. Their arrival was a heartwarming gesture. I mention the story here mainly to pay tribute to them and to apologise for the churlishness of our leadership in not also doing so.27](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kkho4esvjlcg6ox4boul4zr/bafkreihkdbaivmbhdhiynx5mx7brghkx5sxnzcpx74oq7h5tlez35ph2l4)
