President Trump Lost!

Now the hostilities between North Korea and USA seems to be ended because Kim Jong-un decided not to send some missiles to Guam, it is time to identify who won this 'fight'.

You would think Trump won, but maybe Trump lost the game.

I cannot imaging North Korea would like a war with the United States at all. Kim Jong-un wants to be recognised as a power in the world. A country that is recognised having nuclear weapons and missiles. Why would someone want to sign its own and its country's death penalty? Maybe Kim Jong-un is a power tripper - and maybe he is not - but he and his advisors must know that when sending missiles to American soil, it will unleash massive military power against his own country, and himself.

Kim Jong-un played the highest level of bluff poker. He played this game purely to get Trump to play the game. That worked very well!

What did Kim Jong-un win?

So far, the item on the agenda was for North Korea to stop their nuclear programs and the development of nuclear weapons. Kim showed the world and the USA that is now to late to demand that. The program delivered nuclear weapons, they are there!

A reason why not only the USA but also Europe is so busy with the North Korean topic, is the fact North Korea supplies - conventional - weapons to terrorist and even more importantly to Syria, Assad. We all know this, but now the western world are also facing the consequences. Due to the ongoing devastating war in Syria, many Syrians are seeking safety. They seek shelter not only in neighbouring countries, but also in Europe. And we in Europe do not want to many refugees, many countries in Europe do want to see new refugees coming in anymore. So it needs to be solved where the problem starts. Assad probably had much more difficulties to keep his position when he would not have been helped by North Korea. The Syria case would then look quite differently, and it can be expected that - although there are many groups fighting each other in Syria - lower numbers of Syrians would be seeking safety somewhere else. What if peace was negotiated already years ago? We for sure would not have gotten the large influx of refugees the last two years.

New Weapon Race?

Since North Korea does not have any official export, and the country's internal markets are not really working, it requires the income it gets from selling weapons, amongst others. Now North Korea has nuclear weapons, the chance is for sure not zero North Korea will start selling these. This will result in a new weapon race. In several countries the call for developing nuclear weapons started, in South Korea - they have nuclear energy and therefore nuclear knowledge - and in Japan.

What IF

• What if we would approach North Korea differently?
• What if we would stop taking North Korean workers into our own countries (read this post here)?
• What if we would not develop new nuclear weapons?
• What if we would not make the game to be the USA against North Korea, but a united front consisting of many countries against North Korea?
• What if we would talk more instead of shouting and showing our muscles?
• What if Trump would be replaced?

THE ONLY SOLUTION

The only solution to any disagreement is to talk, talk and talk and while talking trying to get a true understanding of the other side, whilst seeking win-win solutions. And even when the other side does not seek the solutions, be the bigger one and continue the other party to calm down and become rational. Humans react primarily the same way, when anger is countered with anger, everybody will get more angry. When the one who is angry, will get a good listening ear, without any threats or attacks, the anger will flow away, and the brains get room again for rational thinking processes.

sources: various TV and Radio shows

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