Former CIA Analyst Recommends President Trump to Not Visit the DMZ

Here is the latest call for President Trump to not visit the DMZ:

Sue Mi Terry

North Korea could feel threatened if U.S. President Donald Trump visits the demilitarized zone on the inter-Korean border next month, a U.S. expert said Friday.

Trump could include a trip to the buffer zone dividing South and North Korea when he visits Seoul from Nov. 7-8, according to news reports. There are concerns it could provoke Pyongyang amid high tensions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

“They’re seeing almost everything as a threat,” Sue Mi Terry, a former Korea analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, said during a discussion on North Korea.

She noted that Trump has called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “Rocket Man” on a suicide mission and threatened to “totally destroy” the country if necessary.

“They already see him as a very provocative person,” she said. “Anything that he does will be continually seen that way.”

Terry voiced strong opposition to the use of military action against North Korea, saying it could have “catastrophic consequences” for the 20 million people living in Seoul.

“I think North Korea will retaliate if there’s a military strike,” she said. “In this ‘track 2’ meeting I had with North Koreans, they emphasized that they didn’t go through this level of pain that they had gone through to acquire nuclear weapons — spending millions of dollars — just to be able to, to paraphrase their own words: ‘We’re not just going to perish without being able to use them if we think the attack for regime change is coming.'”  [Yonhap]

Ms. Terry is a smart person, but I don’t understand her perspective on this.  If President Trump is going to say something provocative during his trip that is going to upset the Kim regime it doesn’t matter if it happens at Panmunjom or during his planned speech to the National Assembly.

As far as her view of being against military action I disagree with.  First of all, I have not heard Trump calling for regime change.  President Trump’s comments about totaling destroying North Korea were made in the context of the US or its allies having to defend itself from a North Korean attack.

Secondly there is this drum beat that any military action against North Korea will lead to the destruction of Seoul which I believe is not accurate.  In my opinion if the US conducted a limited strike against for example their missile manufacturing facilities, this would not lead to the destruction of Seoul that would potentially kill millions of people.  The Kim regime knows destroying Seoul means a regime change war they don’t want.

I believe the Kim regime will respond, but in a more limited fashion that doesn’t lead to full scale war.  Some examples are a limited artillery barrage or ballistic missile attack against US military targets.  A terrorism attack within South Korea or against USFK personnel.  There are many other things the North Koreans could do in response that does not trigger a full war.  After their response the Kim regime can turn to the Chinese and the Russians to help them justify their response to the limited US strike to stop a full scale war from happening.

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Rock
Rock
6 years ago

Trump is a wuss. No way he will visit the DMZ.

Smokes
6 years ago

Yet another “expert” emerges from the shadows. You know when these people aren’t around? Afterwards when it runs out what little they specifically claim ends up not being true. They’re like fortune-tellers, making vague claims carefully ensuring they don’t actually say anything specific so they can’t be held accountable later for bullshitting. How much is she charging to pretty much spout the same stuff you read on here from any of us?

In any case whatever the F a “track 2” meeting is, if the DPRK really said what she’s claiming then there it is, they want nuclear ordinance for spite, plain and simple. A nuclear version of Saddam giving the order to light the oil wells on fire. What more reason does the world need to strip these a-holes of all capabilities now rather than later?

Tbonety1r
Tbonety1r
6 years ago

“Sue Mi” Teehee

Liz
Liz
6 years ago

Sue Mi.
That is kind of funny.
She should’ve gone into law.

Rock
Rock
6 years ago

It does not matter what Sue Mi says. Chump, I mean Trump, is a wuss. No way he is going near the DMZ. He wants to stay as far away from rocketman as possible.

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