"A China-based group which it calls 'TempTick', embedded malware in Microsoft Word documents distributed early last month. Researchers also blamed 'Turla' -- a Russia-based unit that has selectively targeted governments world-wide, for a JavaScript attack in April," the cybersecurity firm said in a statement.
"Turla" has been described as a state-sponsored outfit while "TempTick" has carried out activity consistent with government sponsorship. "TempTick" has been around since at least 2009 and has traditionally focused on South Korea and Japan, hitting financial institutions and government entities including aerospace.
"Turla", the Russian group, is a sophisticated hacking operation that has long sought high-level, diplomatic intelligence. Researchers from the cybersecurity company also identified attacks in March by another Chinese group called "Tonto" in which it distributed malicious files in a fake posting for a job with the South Korean Coast Guard.
The "Tonto", described as state-sponsored, had been connected to last year's attcks on South Korean entities involved in the deployment of a US missile-defence system that has irked Beijing. 0688日出づる処の名無し2018/06/06(水) 20:10:04.51ID:R+AMaS8Ghttp://japanese.joins.com/article/038/242038.html 【時視各角】トランプ大統領の内心を読む 2018年06月06日11時25分 [? 中央日報/中央日報日本語版]
これに反応して中国共産党のプロパガンダ・タブロイド、環球時報 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1105742.shtml HOME >> OP-ED US warships unwelcome in Taiwan Straits Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/5 23:13:39 According to Western media, the US is considering sending a warship through the Taiwan Straits. If true, that means Washington is ready to pile more pressure on China. On the same day the news came out, two US B-52 bombers reportedly took off from Guam and flew to the vicinity of China's Nansha Islands. Later, a spokesperson for the US Pacific Air Forces denied it. （略） If Washington's real intention is to create tension in Sino-US ties and it is willing to pay any price for it, there will be another story between China and the US as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. 0692日出づる処の名無し2018/06/06(水) 23:35:04.26ID:FzOKUW4b マブバニのアジアの復興に関する見解は正しいが、それを始めたのは中印ではなく 西洋の手法を用いた日本であり、日本はアジアの一部ではなく西洋だと見做されている。 ・・・Mr Mahbubani is correct about the recovery of Asia, but it began not with China and India but with Japan. Not only did Japan use western industrial tools to defeat imperial Russia in 1905, but Japan remains the world’s third largest national economy (using current exchange rates). Yet when Mr Mahbubani argues that the “emerging seven” economies have outstripped the G7 in contributing to global growth, Japan is treated as part of the west, not Asia.・・・ https://www.ft.com/content/930a8e9e-64be-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff
中国国際航空は６日、昨秋から休止していた北京と平壌を結ぶ定期便の運航を再開した。 （略） 0700日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 05:40:14.74ID:1sO319Y/ Financial Times@FinancialTimes・4h Edward Luce: By uniting America’s largest allies against the US, Donald Trump has pulled off something unthinkable. The sheep are abandoning the shepherd
Richard N. Haass@RichardHaass・1h One purpose of diplomacy is to make it easier for the opposite side to come to the table and compromise. This does just the opposite. It also ignores the reality that it was South Korea’s president who got things back on track after the US cancellation. 0703日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 05:57:34.71ID:1sO319Y/>>695、700 Richard N. Haass@RichardHaass The Trump administration has achieved the unthinkable: turning the G-7 into the G-6 ...with the US as the odd man out. America First is as predicted America Alone. Respect for this country is falling, along with its influence, prosperity, and security. 0704日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 06:06:40.32ID:1sO319Y/https://jp.reuters.com/article/malaysia-mahathir-idJPKCN1J20LV 2018年6月6日 / 15:59 / 6時間前更新 マレーシア中銀総裁が辞任、前政権の１ＭＤＢ疑惑巡り新たな離職者
5日に実施された米中間選挙の予備選は特にカリフォルニア州の動向に注目が集まった。 主なポイントをWSJチーフコメンテーターのジェラルド・F・サイブが解説（英語音声、 英語字幕あり） blob:https://jp.wsj.com/c4450fb0-1cbb-4d46-8a9e-b7bba816c740 By Janet Hook and Natalie Andrews 2018 年 6 月 7 日 07:24 JST 【サンフランシスコ】11月の米議会中間選挙へ向け5日に実施されたカリフォルニア州 予備選は、接戦が予想された複数の下院選挙区で民主党が完封負けを逃れた。 注目度が高かったのは共和党がこれまで制していた複数の選挙区で、民主党候補はこれ らの選挙区で上位2位に入り、本選へ候補者を送り込めることが確定した。 0706日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 07:45:29.79ID:1sO319Y/https://jp.wsj.com/articles/SB12445055717665964284204584270904070420592 中国ZTE、存続へ 米国と合意間近＝関係者 By Dan Strumpf 2018 年 6 月 7 日 06:50 JST
【深セン】中国の通信機器大手、中興通訊（ZTE）は存続に向けて間もなく米国と合意 する見通しだ。ただ赤字が積み上がり、プロジェクトの遅れに憤慨した顧客が補償を要 求するなど、ZTEには今後さらなる課題が待ち受けている。 複数の関係者によると、ZTE経営陣は4日、米国メーカーからの部品調達の再開を認め る内容の暫定合意を深センで交わした。米商務省の取引禁止令の影響で4月半ばから遊 休状態にあるZTEのスマートフォン・通信機器工場も再稼動する見込みになった。 （後略） 0707日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 09:31:34.46ID:1sO319Y/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/06/pruitt-epa-republicans-scandal-scarred-599048 Republicans losing patience with scandal-scarred Pruitt ‘I thought that Mr. Pruitt would have learned his lesson,’ says Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. By ANTHONY ADRAGNA and EMILY HOLDEN 06/06/2018 05:37 PM EDT 共和党議員らは、スキャンダルまみれのPruitt環境庁長官に、忍耐を失いつつある ポリテイコ Republicans on Capitol Hill are growing frustrated with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt ? and many are now publicly questioning whether he can hang on to his job amid the unending stream of scandals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/satire/2018/04/epa.php https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/satire/assets_c/2018/04/satire180425-epa-thumb-720xauto.jpg ＜トランプ政権のトンデモ人事の中でも最たるものがEPA長官のプルイット――環境を 保護しない政策を次々に実行するばかりか自分と仲間のために公金をじゃんじゃん浪費中＞ 0708日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 11:48:51.32ID:1sO319Y/https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO31472330X00C18A6EAF000/ トランプ氏、身内関係者を減刑 恣意的運用に批判 2018/6/7 10:20
[録音：チョン泊客員] "There is no optimism for me。 I've not seen any sign at the North Koreans are starting to reform their system in that way to allow for ... " 北朝鮮がマイクポムペオ国務長官が強調米企業の大々的な投資支援を受ける規制を緩和す る必要がし、人権侵害に関する改善の努力も見えるのに、今までそのような信号はないで しょう。 パク碩座は北朝鮮政権はむしろポムペオ長官の提案を快く思わないだろうと、最終的に非 核化と経済建設に邁進するという金委員長の意志を現状況では、最大限に活用していない と言いました。
このような指摘は、最近、米国の大規模な民間支援に関心がないと資本主義体制と文化を ほぼ毎日非難する北朝鮮の官営メディアの流れと脈を同じくするでしょう。 しかし、ワシントンでは、非核化と人権改善を連携したり、米 - 北首脳会談で一緒に提出 することについての見解が分かれています。 0719日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 16:58:18.40ID:1sO319Y/ ジョセフユン元国務省対北朝鮮政策特別代表は5日、上院聴聞会で、米 - 北首脳会談は、 非核化に集中すべきだ人権など他の事案を議題に盛り込むことに反対の立場を明らかにし ました。 [録音：ジョセフユン] "I really think it would be a mistake to overload the agenda" 米 - 北首脳会談にあまりにも多くの議題を入れれば失策になるという主張です。
しかし、戦略国際問題研究所（CSIS）のビクター・チャ韓国碩座は北朝鮮政権に人権侵 害問題を提起しなければならないました。 [録音：ビクター・チャ客員] "we must require North Korea to address human rights abuses 人権に関する実質的な措置は、北朝鮮政権の変化を実質的に測る重要な指標になるので どんな包括的な政治的合意にも政権の組織的な人権侵害を終える内容が必ず含まれなけ ればならないというのです。
複数の専門家は、トランプ大統領が即時完全非核化と人権改善の後退して、北朝鮮政権 が不便なものについて言及していないいるとの懸念を示しています。 北朝鮮人権委員会のグレッグスカラーチューブ事務総長は5日、VOAに北朝鮮政権の対 話歩みは平和に関するのではなく、制裁緩和のためのものだと、北朝鮮の真正性は、 人権改善を介して見なければならないと言いました。 [録音：スカラチューブ総長] "This is not about peace。 This is simply about appeasing ... " 米国が最大の経済制裁と人権圧迫基調を維持していなければ、金正恩政権は非核化をし ないまま、南北経済協力を再開して、これを遮断し、既存の反人道的犯罪を継続すると いうことでしょう。 0720日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 16:58:47.39ID:1sO319Y/ しかし、ホワイトハウスは、トランプ大統領がキム・ジョンウン委員長を会うと明らかに した後、北朝鮮の人権問題を取り上げていません。
マクロン大統領は、トランプ大統領が欧州連合（ＥＵ）とカナダ、メキシコへの鉄鋼・ア ルミニウム輸入関税適用を決定した問題などにＧ７の英国、ドイツ、日本、フランス、イ タリア、カナダが立ち向かわなければならないと結論付けた。 マクロン大統領に先立ち、メルケル独首相はサミットで貿易と気候変動に関してトランプ 大統領に異議を唱えると述べていた。また、妥協の余地がないことから、共同声明がまと まらない可能性があると指摘した。 原題：France Said to Warn Trump That It Will Not Sign a G-7 Statement（抜粋） 0728日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 21:43:44.21ID:1sO319Y/https://jp.wsj.com/articles/SB10086797594324143303904584271173027712220 トランプ氏が狙う石炭復活、割高で危険な執着 石炭は価格優位性を失う一方で、死に至るじん肺を急増させている By Greg Ip 2018 年 6 月 7 日 10:37 JST ――筆者のグレッグ・イップはWSJ経済担当チーフコメンテーター
【文山（韓国）】米国と北朝鮮の間での永続的な合意成立を期待して、平和への究極の 賭けに出ている勇気ある投資家が一部にいる。彼らは、地雷原となっている非武装地帯 （DMZ）に近い韓国側の土地を競って買い求めている。 不動産仲介業者によると、買い手が狙っているのは、坡州（パジュ）近郊の民間人統制 区域（CCZ＝民間人の立ち入りが規制されている追加的な緩衝地帯）内にある土地だ。 総面積が528平方マイル（約1370平方キロメートル）のCCZは人がまばらにしか住んで おらず、監視塔や戦車妨害のための落とし穴があり（後略） 0731日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 22:27:13.06ID:1sO319Y/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/07/trump-bolton-north-korea-630362 Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning After two months on the job, Trump’s new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea. By ELIANA JOHNSON 06/07/2018 05:05 AM EDT ボルトン国家安全保障補佐官の着任後2ヶ月で、一度も北朝鮮についてのトップレベルの NSC会議を招集していない ポリティコ
For decades, top presidential advisers have used a methodical process to hash out national security issues before offering the president a menu of options for key decisions. On an issue like North Korea, that would mean White House Situation Room gatherings of the secretaries of state and defense along with top intelligence officials, the United Nations ambassador, and even the treasury secretary, who oversees economic sanctions.
北朝鮮とのサミットの決定以降、大統領はポンペオ国務長官以外のNSCに相談することなく サミットの準備を進めている But since Trump agreed on a whim to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on March 8, the White House’s summit planning has been unstructured, according to a half-dozen administration officials. Trump himself has driven the preparation almost exclusively on his own, consulting little with his national security team outside of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
国家安全保障補佐官とNSCが、北朝鮮問題で意思決定に関与していないというのは極めて 特異であるという Senior officials from both the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations called the absence of a formal interagency process before such a consequential meeting troubling. Peter Feaver, a former National Security Council (NSC) official in the George W. Bush White House, said his colleagues would likely have held "quite a few" meetings of the so-called Principals Committee of Cabinet-level NSC members in a comparable situation. A former top Obama White House official echoed that point, calling the lack of top-level NSC meetings “shocking.” 0732日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 22:28:04.89ID:1sO319Y/ 歴代の大統領と異なってトランプ政権ではNSCが正規に開催されて意思決定をするのではなく 大統領のad hoc approachで意思決定がおこなわれ金正恩との首脳会談が決まった Trump has also not presided personally over a meeting of those senior NSC officials, as a president typically does when making the most important decisions. Trump’s ad hoc approach to talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with whom he has traded threats of nuclear war, partly reflects the disorder that has always gripped the Trump White House ?itself a reflection of the commander in chief’s management style.
そうした意思決定は北朝鮮問題に限らず、同盟国への関税の問題も同じで・・・ But officials say that the policymaking process across the White House, never a tightly organized affair, has recently grown less disciplined. They point to John Kelly's loosening grip on the West Wing, which Trump has always chafed at, and with it, the dissolution of many of the processes he tried to institute when he arrived a year ago. This has affected not just North Korea but the president's recent imposition of tariffs on American allies.
Many also cite Trump's frustration with Bolton, who has irritated the president after just two months on the job.
Without that coordinated process, the president “cannot understand the equities that different elements of the government have in this,” said a former senior Bush administration official who served both in the White House and at the State Department. The White House declined to comment for this article. 0733日出づる処の名無し2018/06/07(木) 22:41:09.97ID:IqaKnz7K ミサイル発射台の廃棄は、非核化のサインにはならない ttps://www.newsweekjapan.jp/amp/stories/world/2018/06/post-10329.php?t=0&__twitter_impression=true 略 だがミサイル発射台の廃棄は、北朝鮮が突如として非核化に取り組んでいるという証拠にはならない、 と指摘する専門家もいる。今後本当に試されるのは、北朝鮮が核能力を手放すかどうかだ。
大統領直属経済諮問機関である国民経済諮問会議の金広斗（キム・グァンドゥ）副議長 は韓国政府高位関係者のうち「韓国製造業の危機」を懸念する声を最も多く出すことで 有名だ。だが韓国政府内でそうした認識がしっかり広がらないのが残念だと話した。 最近自身のフェイスブックで「中国の製造２０２５が津波のように押し寄せているが私 たちは何をしているのか？ 備えが見えないのは私の無知のためなのか」と苦しさを吐 露することもした。 （後略） 0760日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 11:08:22.16ID:7l0cknKKhttps://jp.wsj.com/articles/SB10086797594324143303904584272972934225170 HEARD ON THE STREET トランプ氏の鉄鋼関税、しわ寄せくらう米石油業界 By Nathaniel Taplin 2018 年 6 月 8 日 10:32 JST ――WSJの人気コラム「ハード・オン・ザ・ストリート」
その昔、米国は鉄鋼の国だった。現在はまた石油の国になっている。米原油生産は5月に 過去最大の日量1050万バレル近くに達し、今年遅くにもロシアを抜いて世界最大となる 可能性がある。 実現は、米産油会社が市場に出荷できた場合に限られる。ドナルド・トランプ大統領が輸 入鉄鋼に課している25％の関税は、それを大幅に難しくしかねない。EOGリソーシズやパ イオニア・ナチュラル・リソーシズなどシェール生産大手の掘削コストを（後略） 0761日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 11:36:46.28ID:sTHI2Xfp>>745 いつになったら人権なんて曖昧な言葉で騙せないって学習するの？ 0762日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 11:43:10.59ID:f5X8FUGp>>761 「人権」なんて権利は存在しませんからな。やたら人権人権いう奴は詐欺師が話してるようなものだと思って間違いない。 0763日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:36:09.00ID:7l0cknKK マイケル・グリーン、ビクター・チャ、アンドリュー・シュワルツというcsisの アジア外交のエキスパートの対談、米朝のシンガポール・サミット。面白い。 一部の抜粋： https://www.csis.org/analysis/swinging-dark-eve-june-12-summit Swinging In The Dark: Eve of the June 12 Summit June 7, 2018
マイケル・グリーン：これは伝統的な意味での、ジョージ・ケナンの言う「外交」で はなくて、WWFレスリングマッチであって・・ MR. GREEN: No. Despite the efforts of the State Department and the Singaporean Foreign Ministry and others, this is not diplomacy in the tradition of Dean Acheson or George Kennan or George Schultz. This is a little more akin to a World Wrestling Federation match. I mean, it really is a lot about the drama. There may be some outcomes. We can talk about that. But it has, in my view, devolved from a negotiation into more of an event.
これはオリンピックのようにメディア向けの出し物で日本のNHKは100人を送り込み・・ MR. CHA: We all laughed at the time. But it just goes to show, as Mike said, what a spectacle this is. I don’t think the listeners really understand how much of a world media event this is going to be. All of us have been talking to media around town over the last week and everybody is ? everybody’s going to Singapore and basically going to basically do their core newscasts out of Singapore with the summit as the backdrop as if we were at the Olympics, although this is probably even bigger than the Olympics. NHK is sending 100 reporters. ボルトンはどうなっている？ MR. SCHWARTZ: What happened with Bolton? MR. GREEN: Well, the reports are he’s not going, which is really unusual for ? MR. SCHWARTZ: So the national security adviser is not going to the biggest negotiation. 我々3人はかってNSCのメンバーであった経験を持つか北朝鮮との交渉にはボルトンも NSCも関わらないという異様な状態 0764日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:36:53.55ID:7l0cknKK MR. GREEN: Well, that’s ? we’ll see. That’s the reporting right now. We’ll see. I mean, all three of us worked on the NSC staff, and for the president to go into a consequential meeting like this without his national security adviser would be really unusual. But if he’s not going, it’s because he, John Bolton, said that the North Koreans should follow the Libya model, you know, very quick denuclearization. The North Koreans didn’t like that, partly because Gadhafi got killed in the end, and that’s why there is speculation and reporting he won’t go. But we’ll see. It would be pretty amazing if he didn’t.
MS. TERRY: Well, it was telling that when Kim Yong-chol, the North Korean official, came to the White House and met with President Trump, John Bolton was not sitting in the office ? the Oval, right? MR. SCHWARTZ: Right. 結局、交渉はポンペオ国務長官とKim Yong-cholだけで進められ。これは通常ではない MS. TERRY: It was just Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol. MR. CHA: Which is highly unusual. It would be highly unusual for a meeting of that consequence for the national security adviser not to be in the room with the president. That was quite unusual. 金正恩について MR. SCHWARTZ: Mike, what do you think Kim Jong-un wants out of this negotiation and out of future negotiations with the United States? MR. GREEN: He has already achieved two big things he wants. MR. GREEN: He defied the United Nations, multiple security sanctions ? Security Council sanctions resolutions, defied the United Nations and the world’s most powerful country, the United States; tested banned missiles and nuclear weapons; and the entire world leadership is coming to him. That’s a huge coup. 0765日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:37:54.25ID:7l0cknKK The other thing he wants is relief from sanctions. And I am sure the North Koreans knew what when they tested their Hwasong-15, their ICBM, and their next nuclear test, I’m sure they knew they’d be heavily sanctioned. And I’m ? and I’m quite certain they had a plan to get out of it, and the plan was a peace offensive, a charm offensive. And it’s working because the president of the United States himself has said we’re not using maximum pressure anymore. The Chinese, who account for 90 percent of North Korea’s trade, are already backing off on sanctions. So even if this summit doesn’t deliver for the U.S. sanctions relief, he’s already achieved significant relief from pressure. So that’s two big goals. 北朝鮮の通商の90%を占める中国は既に制裁を緩和しており、金正恩の制裁緩和 のゴールは達成されている。さらに北朝鮮は実質的核保有国の地位を得ている。 The president, Donald Trump, goes into this having achieved nothing diplomatically, but he has achieved some political goals. I mean, I think the whole world’s paying attention to him, and that’s a bit of a political goal. トランプ大統領は外交的に何もなし得ていないが、政治的には全世界の注目を集めて いて、その意味で政治的にゴールを達成できる I think the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has achieved his most important goal for now, which is getting the Americans away from talking about a military strike. The country that’s most despondent right now is Japan, which sees no upside in any of this, and a real potential they get isolated and that U.S. alliances start unraveling because of a ? of a declaration of peace in this summit and no actual reduction of the threat. 日本は何も得るものがなく首脳会談で平和宣言とかになれば米国の同盟国として 孤立化し、一方で現実的な脅威は少しも減少しない But of all the people involved in this, Kim Jong-un is the only one who’s put two points on the scoreboard already just by having the meeting. MR. CHA: And then even ? I mean, if you think about this, you know, as long as the meeting is not a total disaster, like a complete flameout, what’s going to come next? Well, in the fall he’ll probably be invited to the U.N. General Assembly, right? MR. GREEN: Yeah. 0766日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:38:32.76ID:7l0cknKK MS. TERRY: Kim Jong-un has already gained international acceptance as a nuclear power. He has legitimized his role. I think so much better off right now than where he was last November/December, right, in 2017. With all this summitry and diplomacy also, as Mike talked about, political will to implement sanctions is gone. China ? there’s already reports that China is not really implementing sanctions anymore. We have reports that North Korean seafood is showing up in the areas ? in Chinese part ? China’s part. We have reports of surface to surface-ship transfer of fuel. So it's already political will to implement sanctions is, I think, weakened. And we have inter-Korea projects which is going to continue. Not the South Korean president is going to find ways to violate U.N. sanctions, but outside of that I think they are going ? they are going to continue with the inter-Korea projects. And so I think Kim Jong-un is far better off right now than where he was a few months ago. 0767日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:40:14.14ID:2TwJO8LE 人権は存在するよ 憲法の人権条項は不可侵だから それを安倍一派の改憲論は、人権は国家が制限できるということにしようとしている 帝国憲法においては臣民の権利は天皇によってありがたく与えられたものという思想に復古しようとしている 安倍一派は治安維持法の復活を目指している 安倍政権下で日本の言論空間は窮屈に貧しくなる一方だ 0768日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 12:42:14.03ID:MLqrDagc 日本を牽制するために北朝鮮を核保有国にするという 民主党寄りの政策は成功を収めつつあるということか
The US Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday published an amended version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act which contains provisions calling for strengthened security cooperation and military communication with Taiwan including supporting US troops to participate in the island's Han Kuang exercises. The legislation will very likely pass the Senate.
The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act garnered extensive attention as it demanded the US defense secretary evaluate the possibility of mutual visits by naval vessels between the US and Taiwan. Congress also passed the Taiwan Travel Act, which allows high-level visits between leaders of Taiwan and the US. These laws encroach on the one-China principle, which is the political foundation of China-US relations, and create uncertainties in bilateral relations. 上院軍事委員会の公表した 2019 National Defense Authorization Act は台湾海峡 での軍事演習や軍事協力に米軍の参加を言う。これとならんで、議会の通過させた 台湾旅行法は「一つの中国」原則に違反し米中関係に新たな問題を持ち込む（後略） 0786日出づる処の名無し2018/06/08(金) 15:26:43.97ID:7l0cknKK 環球時報に寄稿された評論 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1106038.shtml Trump-Kim summit shows US power waning By Dmitry Shlapentokh Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/7 20:53:40 トランプ・金正恩サミットに見る米国のパワーの衰退
Still, his statements, for example, his demand for payment from allies whom he wanted to sacrifice, indicated not just irrationality but implicit weakness. Indeed, the quick transition from an a promised nuclearimminent nuclear war to praise for Kim indicated the subconscious sense of insecurity and weakness. Kim could hardly take Trump's threat of war and "Qaddafi scenario" seriously. Trump would have struck North Korea long ago if not for General Mattis' sober note that a full-blown conflict would have catastrophic consequences, not just for North Korea, South Korea and Japan, but for the US itself. He also understood that neither South Korea nor Japan would be fully on the US' side. Negotiation is the only option which, regardless of its outcomes, would implicitly underscore the US' diminishing ability to impose its power on the rest of the world. Indeed, no American president would treat as an equal the leader of a small country which has been dubbed a "rogue state," and which generations of presidents dismissed as not being worthy of sitting with the leader of a superpower.
The very fact that Kim would discuss these matters with Trump not only indicates his status as leader of a nuclear state, but would implicitly be a sign of the US' diminishing status in the global arena, regardless of Trump's hubris.
The author is an associate professor of Indiana University, South Bend, Indiana. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
