Korean Breakthrough!

by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Sep. 21, 2018

Caught up in the moment -- that describes the human condition 99% of the time, and all the more so in this age of unabated information flow. This particular moment is filled with the juiciest nonsense: Kavanaugh, and sex, another mass moral panic, and sex, and ...

The real news -- the news that will go down in the history books as one of those pivotal moments that made all the difference -- goes almost unnoticed amid the floodtide of filth, innuendo, and hysterical moralism that clogs the arteries of our "mainstream" media. President Trump was the first to announce it in a series of tweets:

"Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts. In the meantime there will be no rocket or nuclear testing."

While the steady progress being made by the two Koreas has been scantily reported, and the alleged "failure" of the Singapore summit proclaimed far and wide, the media had to report this, albeit amid caveats and quotes from selected thinktanks on how the whole project is impossible.

What they don't want to acknowledge is that Trump's strategy is working: the North Koreans are making real concessions. Pyongyang's pledge to undergo inspections and dismantle specific facilities in full view of foreign experts is really the breakthrough we've all been waiting -- and hoping -- for. The implications are enormous, for this means the North Koreans are committing themselves to a formal agreement with detailed provisions allowing access to North Korean facilities and the building of a permanent architecture of observation, perhaps under the aegis of the Nonproliferation Treaty.

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