Putin’s rhetoric and Trump’s meeting – Kim Jong Un

Written by Nasser Kandil,

It is neither important how will Washington react to the speech of the Russian President Vladimir Putin who declared the end of the era of American uni-polarity of the traditional and the nuclear force, nor how will it promote the summit meeting between the US President Donald Trump and the supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un. Because in both cases what concerns it is the separation between the two incidents rather than believing its impressions. In the military affair, the State department said on Thursday that “the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech ensures that his country is developing destabilizing weapons, and this is contrary to its commitments”.  While the spokesperson for the United States Department of State Heather Nauert in a press conference said that “Putin certified what the US government knew a long time ago, but Russia was denying that, Russia has been developing destabilizing weapons systems for more than ten years, so it breached its international commitments directly”. While the Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Dana W.White said during a press conference” we were not surprised with these declarations, the American people must be certain that we are ready and our missile defense dose not target Russia” till the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood confessed that Washington’s missile defense is unable to confront the strategic force of Russia and China. In a response to a question posed by the US Senate in the Armed Services Committee whether the US missile defense is ready to confront the most advanced Russian weapons viewed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rood said that the recent missile defense system of his country is not ready yet to disable the strategic nuclear arsenal of Russia and China”.

Concerning the surprising incident as described by Trump’s administration about the start of coordination for Trump – Kim Jong -UN summit, the Americans’ words varied between the arrogant language of the Vice President, the real arrogant language of the Secretary of State, and the meaningful words of Trump himself after his call with the Chinese President. The Vice President Mike Pence said that North Korea is defeated due to Trump’s policy, so it accepted the American conditions, without paying attention that before less than a month, he talked about a plan for isolating North Korea in coordination with South Korea, while the latter was drafting settlement with Russia and China, but Rex Tilerson the Secretary of State was more realistic, he said that he was surprised upon Trump’s acceptance of Kim Jong Un’s proposal for a summit meeting. While Trump said that he is rejoiced at North Korea’s readiness to disarm its nuclear weapons, thanking China for its role in preparation for a peaceful settlement of the nuclear program of North Korea. But how the meeting was arranged? This is ignored by the Americans in media. On January 11^th Putin said at a meeting with media editors that “he is a skilled mature politician” he added ” I think Mr. Jong Un has won in this round, he accomplished his strategic mission, he has nuclear weapons and a missile of total range of 13.000 kilometers that can practically reach to any destination on the ground”  He added “Surely he has a reason in calming the situation” Putin’s speech has been coincided with the announcement of North Korea of freezing its missile and nuclear experiments on the occasion of winter Olympic games in South Korea, while Washington announced in conjunction its abolishment of its military maneuvers with South Korea  for the same reason.  South Korea’s National Security Bureau (NSA) has launched shuttles that led to a summit between the leaders of the two Koreas at the end of April, with a Chinese-Russian welcome. It was followed by a consensus of the leader of North Korea of a summit meeting with the US President under an old slogan of North Korea that was refused by America. It is a Korean free-nuclear Peninsula. This means Washington’s disarming of its nuclear weapons from South Korea in exchange of the North Korea’s abandonment of its nuclear weapons, and Washington’s removing of its Thad missile system in South Korea. All of these are Russian-Chinese demands. South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-Yong was surprised before yesterday during his meeting with the US President in the White House upon receiving the approval of holing a summit.

The international balances drawn by Putin’s speech have been interpreted in Trump’s behavior. As any US president Trump wants his own historic achievement, as Barack Obama accomplished the Iranian nuclear file towards which Trump is so upset, Trump wants to accomplish the military nuclear file of North Korea, Korea did not try to accumulate the wealth of its people in unused missiles, rather it conducted that way in order to get the recognition of its people of it as an independent sovereign country in exchange of ensuring its security by freeing the Korean peninsula in its north and south from the nuclear weapons and the weapons of mass destruction. It proposed a summit under this title, and Trump accepted surprising his secretary of State, because the international equations showed him that America has become the second country in its military force, so it has to accelerate to accept the proposal under Chinese-Russian mediation, and to shout with its defeated allies in the battlefields, especially in Syria, and to accept the fact that it is defeated while saying that the war is not among its priorities, Now Ghouta is like Aleppo, and Afrin, Raqqa, and Idlib are on the way.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,