FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump Warns That ‘Major, Major Conflict’ With North Korea Is Possible

Trump Warns That ‘Major, Major Conflict’ With North Korea Is Possible

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By GERRY MULLANYAPRIL 27, 2017

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President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., earlier this month. Mr. Trump has urged Mr. Xi to use Beijing’s leverage with North Korea. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

HONG KONG — President Trump warned Thursday of the possibility of a “major, major conflict” with North Korea, in an interview in which he said he was seeking a diplomatic solution to concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to conduct another nuclear test.

In the interview with Reuters, Mr. Trump praised President Xi Jinping of China for his efforts to resolve the dispute over North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs, but he cautioned that diplomatic efforts might fail.

“There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea,” he said. “Absolutely.”

Mr. Trump’s remarks came amid signs that North Korea might soon conduct another underground detonation at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site despite Mr. Trump’s warning not to do so. China has played a mediating role in the crisis, as Mr. Trump has urged Mr. Xi to use Beijing’s leverage with North Korea, a longtime ally, to persuade it not to conduct a test.

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“I believe he is trying very hard. He certainly doesn’t want to see turmoil and death. He doesn’t want to see it,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi. “He is a good man. He is a very good man, and I got to know him very well.”

In the interview, Mr. Trump actually offered some grudging praise for North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

“He’s 27 years old. His father dies, took over a regime,” he said. “So say what you want, but that is not easy, especially at that age.”

“I hope he’s rational,” Mr. Trump added of Mr. Kim.

The United States has been pressing the United Nations to impose more sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs. The diplomatic efforts have coincided with military maneuvers by the United States and South Korea in Pocheon, northeast of Seoul, South Korea, where the allies have demonstrated some of their latest weapons. In addition, the Michigan, a submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan. And a Navy strike group led by the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson has been sent to the Sea of Japan, which borders the Korean Peninsula.

Earlier this month, as tensions with North Korea were flaring, the Carl Vinson was said to be sailing north, toward the peninsula, when it was actually heading south, toward the Indian Ocean.

To protect against a North Korean attack, the United States is on the verge of making a new antimissile system operational in South Korea. Mr. Trump said in the interview that he would seek to have South Korea pay for the system, known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or Thaad, putting its cost around $1 billion.

Under its arrangement with Washington, South Korea was to provide land and build a base for the Thaad system, while the United States would pay for it and cover its operational costs.

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In South Korea, Mr. Trump’s comment shook the election campaign to choose a successor next month to Park Geun-hye, the ousted president. Ms. Park’s decision to accept the Thaad deployment has been one of the most contentious issues on the trail, and Moon Jae-in, the leading candidate, seized on the remarks and, through a spokesman, called for a halt to the deployment.

“We must consider whether it conforms to the spirit of the alliance,” the spokesman, Youn Kwan-suk, said on Friday, accusing Mr. Trump of “demanding unilaterally and without close bilateral consultations that South Korea pay the cost” of the missile defense system.

Rebuffing Mr. Trump, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had no plans to pay for operating the system.

Mr. Trump also said that because of the United States’ sizable trade deficit with South Korea, he intended to renegotiate or end a trade pact with the country. That free trade agreement, called Korus, went into effect in 2012. It contains a framework for trade in both goods and services, and it covers environmental issues as well.

Like all free trade deals, it is designed to remove barriers to commerce. South Korea is America’s sixth-largest trading partner in goods, with $112.2 billion worth of commerce between the two in 2016, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. South Korea has a $10.7 billion trade deficit in services with the United States, but a $27.7 billion trade surplus in goods.

In the Reuters interview, Mr. Trump also rejected an overture from Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, for further discussions. His telephone call with her in December alarmed China, which considers Taiwan a renegade province.

“My problem is that I have established a very good personal relationship with President Xi,” Mr. Trump said. “I really feel that he is doing everything in his power to help us with a big situation. So I wouldn’t want to be causing difficulty right now for him.”

On Thursday, Ms. Tsai had raised the possibility of talking with Mr. Trump again. “We have the opportunity to communicate more directly with the U.S. government,” she said in an interview. “We don’t exclude the opportunity to call President Trump himself, but it depends on the needs of the situation and the U.S. government’s consideration of regional affairs.”

Mr. Trump also used the Reuters interview to reflect on his three-month-old presidency, saying, “This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.”

Follow Gerry Mullany on Twitter @gerrymullany.

Gerry Doyle contributed reporting from Hong Kong, and Choe Sang-Hun from Seoul, South Korea.

The above article is property of The New York Times.

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Anti-kidnapping strategies, how to escape a rapture, dynamical weakening groups, disintegration groups, disarticulation cells, strength of individuality

Divide and conquer

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By Juan Alberto Galvá

Is it possible to have a group of people in captivity in a place where the captors are even fewer in number than the captives?

How is it possible to walk a multitude of people, thousands of people surrounded by an army that leads them to death, without this crowd doing anything?

Is there a reason to explain why a person or group of people can be taken as a sheep to the slaughterhouse doing nothing to prevent it?

Let's examine the causes of this behavior.

FEAR

Fear is an irrational feeling most of the time. We fear the unknown, but death is not unknown, what is unknown is the trance of death, the end of it is known, but, the exact way it is reached is unknown. The only thing that is known about the process is that most of the time is usually painful.

THE PAIN

Pain is undesirable, though, unfortunately, it is useful for character modeling. However, when pain has apparently such a definite end, death is repulsive. So fear is not so much death as pain, pain is suffering no one wants to suffer.

COLD MIND

But if you are in captivity, that is, in hostage, for example, in a bank, office, or any other setting, before you concentrate on thinking about pain, suffering, and death, you are more productive than looking Keep your head cold and gather strength to calculate your chances.

I mean, every place and situation will be different, but there must be some time to examine the idiosyncrasies of the evildoers, the weak in the bandit group, the distracted, and the frightened. It is important to identify possible rivalries, who commands and who wants to command and shrewdly generate sympathies and also antipathies among them.

ADD FORCES

But it is also necessary to take time, if there is one, to know among the captives which are thrown and to add them to the purpose of not dying of arms crossed, it is better that they give you a very fast shot, that they make you pass through all sorts of Vicissitudes and humiliations and in the end, as a consolation prize, also give yourself a shot.

Therefore we must prevent the enemy from glorifying and taking everything, even if we all die, at least we will know that in the trip to the hereafter we will be chartered and as we reach the destination we can meet again on the road and tear apart in the same death To those who harassed us in life.

But we should not make the mistake of adding some cowardly bastard to the plan because it will make you kill faster. You must add to you who is like you and for this you need emotional intelligence, as you will find out if you have it and if you are looking for an ally also own it, if you can communicate almost telepathically you found it.

HOW TO DO IT?

But, how to draw up a plan, if you cultivate, and you cannot speak? Let's be honest, only those with a value greater than your mind can achieve these things. To do this you must be either a woman with very thick loins or a man with large reproductive spheres. The best discoveries have not necessarily come from a brilliant or analytical mind but from a lot of discipline and great insight. A heroic escape or revolt will not depend on an impossible plan to orchestrate the very conditions of the ongoing conflict, rather it will depend on a mind that is not measuring the consequences too much, so, for this kind of action to happen, rather than Evaluate the possibility of saving what to evaluate is the possibility, the percentage of possibilities that are to be fucked and if the reasonable conclusion is that the most likely is that you and all or most of those who are with you go on a trip to On the other hand, trying to unbalance things for the sake of more productive alternatives will be more than justified.

But you must evaluate well, because if you evaluate badly, and there is some kind of rescue in progress and the conditions are really given for it, it is possible that you cause havoc and put a few deaths in your account. But do not be discouraged because no one other than yourself will read something like this and consider it beyond an interesting reading.

THE PLAN

The plan should have as its most outstanding element the surprise and confusion, create panic, disengage the captors, take away the security that give them the advantages they have and bring the situation to a troubled river where at the end of the day only have the opportunity Which are ordered to be saved.

I explain. If you take the initiative nothing indicates that you will have advantage over those who are inactive, first because perhaps as you are the one who generates the disturbance, you will be for that, the first focus of attention. Second because if you provoke the imbalance your position may not be so close to the door, or the window, or the wall or whatever situation you are involved in, but, in the end, that should not worry you , Since before undertaking this action you had evaluated that the chances that they kill you so along with all the others was almost a mathematical certainty, so, rather than escape in itself, already, at this point, you are moved by a feeling heroic.

TO BE A HERO

It is impossible for you to throw yourself and get some kind of advantage for others without at the same time sooner or later there is some kind of honorable mention for you. The thing is that, in these circumstances, it is very likely that this mention of honor will be posthumous.

But what if after all the possibilities were inclined to a certain death, if you can die with honor you will be greedy, not only for you, but for those that you leave. But do not forget that human beings are very ungrateful, and there is no shortage who, having been mourned the death of a brother, or mother or father and say after the death of this and that was yours and your companions Telepathy, since, according to the theory of their passivity, that by these hours they had distanced themselves from the problem, all would have been saved if you and those who followed you had not rushed.

Therefore, there is nothing more futile than Persian heroism, it is better, at the time, to act simply because after evaluating the picture, doing whatever is done is judged as being right aside from glories or disappointments.

SOLITARY WOLVES

If something is evident is that acting alone, "self-sufficient" individualization has been creating a terrible problem for governments and "intelligence" agencies as these agencies and entities are square to face traditional threats, but when faced with the impact Of the so-called asymmetric war the panorama changes radically.

It is precisely the unpredictable that creates the uncontrollable and it is also evident that in order to not be dominated in any sphere of life, it is necessary to practice a mentality of ideological independence and a certain self-sufficiency of resources because they are the only way to get out in time anyway Of oppression when conditions permit.

The one who leaves with a group of friends, in the car of one of them, to a secluded area, is at the mercy of their good faith, even if this person arrived at a certain moment, for whatever cause, no longer want this In that place or environment. It will be healthy to have some money in the pockets or be accustomed to walking long distances if the circumstances demand it to be able to conserve and to exercise the independence.

The one who works in a company must avoid borrowing in the same and try to have some kind of savings to preserve his freedom, the official part of a government must have some additional means of additional survival for when the positions of the government make immoral, the military Must create strategic safeguards to use them in a timely manner when, for some unjust cause, it is intended to guide him to take action in unfair or illegal activities, such as obedience, etc.

The only way, then, to be free from any kind of oppression is to preserve some reserve of freedom, but it must be a moral freedom, it must be an attitude guided by an intelligent mind that wishes to avoid being dragged into blackmail, abuse, oppression and Any kind of outrage. It should not be a reservation based on disloyalty to the opposite, in which case we would be talking about betrayal and pettiness.

This individual strategy is the only way to balance the world from all orders, from the most basic to the most complex. From our interpersonal relationships with friends and family to the governments themselves. It is necessary, in order to stop oppression, that everyone is fully aware that no institution is fully established or firmly rooted or trusted in people who act as zombies who can be guided as automata but with thinking people, with dignity and individuality that they do not They can be guided as livestock. If this thought had once been rooted in our psyche we would never have been led into two world wars, no perverse and deranged individuals like Stalin or Hitler could have accomplished the atrocities they did, and there would be no such damn corruption in all spheres of our world.

Anyone who does not take these safeguards and does not adopt this philosophy or mental attitude will be to a greater or lesser extent and depending on the group to which they belong exposed to proceed under the pressure and / or oppression of the group and name of that irresistible pressure or oppression will say and do bestial things.

PILLARS TO EVALUATE A BAD NECESSARY CALLED "UNION"

Humans are by nature sociable; we do not like being alone for long periods, many animals also behave this way. What separates light years from animals is the ability to come together to carry out the most diverse purposes. This is not something that can be avoided, in fact, this behavior makes us human beings. But, human beings are also selfish and extremely perverse by nature and therefore the petty benefit of domination beats in every fiber of our being at every moment, the only thing that prevents us from abusing everything we have close is the balance of power. At the same time to advance personal, group, community and national projects it is imperative to be part of others and to make others come to be part of us, there is no escape from this reality, which in one way or another compromises our freedom and freedom Of those who adhere to us.

But while we cannot escape this dilemma we can at least "choose" which group to give us part of our freedom and for how long, and this applies to all groups of nature that are, and I say this because I can imagine the Police, military man, band member, husband, wife, son, partner, employee etc. wondering how to apply these postulates to their particular situation.

I FEAR OF GOD

In the group where you are there must be fear of God, one or more of the leaders must be aware of a superior and rector power because when humans do not have a divine referent of any nature they feel that they are not due to anything and nobody And by the same that the others are in the category of "things" or disposable beasts and since there is no moral parameter can do all sorts of things with and through the subordinates because, after all, at the end of this life there will not be Nothing or anyone to be held accountable,

II EMPATHY

The principles of the leader (s) of the group must be empathic with their peers, there must be a correspondence between what is required to be done, the way in which one lives and the treatment given to one's fellow beings.

III COHERENCE

There must be consistency between what is said and what is done

RATIONAL PURPOSE

What the group proposes is framed in a plan that has definite objectives and have as final aim the greatest possible good for as many people as possible.

V APPRECIATION FOR DIVERSITY

No group should exalt any human group over another, or culture over another, ideology, etc. It is one thing to feel joy to be who one is, to be part of something or someone and another to think that those who are not part of that ideology are despicable or inferior.

Broadly speaking, these V principles are centered on the 5 basic reasons ignored by men that have led them to the most deplorable acts of cruelty to humanity

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