Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "N. Korean Denuclearization Will Be Very Hard to Verify, Rand's Bennett Says" video.

  1. Regular low-level flights, people on the gound poking around -- all necessary parts of verification. But Kim's demand to inspect American bases in South Korea will be where this breaks down -- after it comes into existence, that is. For the moment there is nothing there but a weak and empty press release.
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  2. North Korean denuclearization is a big problem here, but the real problem is this "Korean Peninsula" thingie. When I lived in Japan I had an acquaintance who commanded a Spruance class destroyer home-based to Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo. He once said "Look, I'm just a 35-year-old kid driving a boat for the Navy -- but I've got more shit here than everything dropped in WWII." Denuclearization of "the Korean Peninsula," what Dear Leader Trump has signed off on, implies Li'l Kim's inspection and verification of every American shipyard, airbase, and other installation -- all those artillery pads with the 100-ton TNT equivalent tank-busters -- in South Korea. I sorta doubt that Donnie Fats has talked that one through with Secretary of Defence Mattis, nor with National Security Advisor Bolton. Nor, of course, with Kim. Yet.
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