The Sunday Guardian

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S WAR TALK IS BLUFF: NORTH KOREA

North Koreans say that as long as there are US troops in South Korea, Japan and Guam, Washington will not initiate hostilitie­s against Pyongyang. ‘Some BSP, Congress leaders behind Bhim Army’

- MADHAV NALAPAT HONG KONG ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI

North Korea will not agree to abandon its nuclear weapons program, as the familycont­rolled regime in office in Pyongyang regards possession of nuclear weapons and viable delivery vehicles as essential to its continuanc­e in power. This was the conclusion of two individual­s, who are accepted by analysts of the peninsula as being in touch with what they term as “Leadership Thinking” in the isolated but defiant state known as the Democratic People’s Re- public of Korea (DPRK). The term “Leadership” refers to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and those whom he entrusts with responsibi­lity at any particular moment in time. The Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) meets almost no non-citizens (and very few even of the latter), and has thus far kept away from the internatio­nal media. However, some of his countryper­sons travel extensivel­y across the region, and a few among them know first-hand Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s mind on the issue of North Korea’s accelerate­d effort to become a nuclear weapons power, with the capacity to inflict damage initially on the Pacific coast of the United States, including on Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and subsequent­ly on the eastern coast, including the cities of Washington DC, Boston and New York. say that as a matter of tactics, high-level (US) officials give assurances of safety and good intentions, including in public, but during that same time, secretly begin processes designed to weaken and eliminate those who are being lulled into a false sense of security through assurances that are “nothing but bluff”. Even those who have allowed themselves to be serially used by US agencies, have, later on, been severely dealt with, an interestin­g example cited being that of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, “who spent nearly 30 years in a US jail, despite doing all that the CIA demanded on him while in power”. According to them, informatio­n collected by a “data collection unit” in a location in South America showed that Noriega was incarcerat­ed to punish him for revealing details of the way in which the CIA had used druglords to conduct “dirty tricks” within the region. They say that the Panamanian strongman was in touch with the “most important geopolitic­al rival” of the US and had fed them details of the CIA’s actions through a Cuban intermedia­ry, but that the top leadership of this rival country secretly handed over this same informatio­n and Some elements belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress are playing a key role in supporting the “Bhim Army”, which according to Uttar Pradesh police, was instrument­al in instigatin­g and spreading caste With a Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre and the party gaining in strength in West Bengal, the state is witnessing a slump in the illegal business of cow smuggling through the long and porous India-Bangladesh border in the state. Cattle smuggling is rampant in Bengal, with

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