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11:38, 13-Aug-2017
Expert: US should not play Pyongyang’s game
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Jenny Town, assistant director of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, believes the war of words will only add fuel to the escalating tensions between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States.
Town believes that the US should not play Pyongyang’s game but focus on how to convey its strategy and interests in a convincing way.
Both Kim Jong Un and Trump have been making threats against each other’s country which Town said may damage the credibility of the US president if he keeps drawing red lines without making real actions.
The DPRK and the US have taken shots at each other since July 28 when the former conducted its second ICBM test in a month. The US responded by sending two B-1B bombers over South Korea and signing new sanctions against Pyongyang into law on August 2.
On August 8, Trump warned the DPRK that any threats made to the US will be met with “fire and fury.” One day later, Kim Jong Un’s administration accused the US of planning “preventive war” and said it was prepared to fire missiles to land near Guam.