Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said recently that “everything is on the table” to confront North Korea unless the country gives up its nuclear weapons program, meaning presumably a US pre-emptive attack. But surely Kim Jong-Un is aware of what happened to Libya’s Gaddafi when he listened to US demands and abandoned his nuclear weapons program — he was invaded and murdered! So the US suffers from its own aggressive foreign policy, and its words are meaningless next to its actions. Is North Korea really an imminent threat to the United States? No, but if we continue to provoke rather than pull back and allow the two Koreas to solve their own problems what threat there is will increase:
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
