Following U.S. warnings to North Korea of a “massive military response,” South Korea on Monday fired missiles into the sea to simulate an attack on the North’s main nuclear test site a day after Pyongyang detonated its largest ever nuclear test explosion.
That's good. It likely means that South Korea is no longer a brake on allied military action against North Korea. This is an apparent change in South Korea's view.
And in another message--but one fully consistent with the organization--the Center for No American Security says we should accept a nuclear North Korea while pretending that we don't:
“Denuclearization is not a viable U.S. policy goal,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, but neither should the U.S. accept North Korea as a nuclear power. “We should keep denuclearization as a long-term aspiration, but recognize privately that it’s unachievable anytime soon.”
I swear to God, if North Korea fired all of its nuclear missiles at South Korea, Japan, and America, CNAS would hail it as the successful denuclearization of North Korea and urge appropriate rewards.
