If Kim Jong Un gets rid of his nukes, he's basically signing his own death warrant

[FarCenter]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made headlines for his diplomatic offensive, expressing unprecedented openness to talking to the US and exploring denuclearization.

But if Kim is serious about getting rid of his country's nuclear weapons, and many doubt that he is, he opens himself up to the same fate that's befallen many US foes and deposed dictators — a fall from power, and potentially his own death.

Perhaps no more vivid example of the fate that awaits dictators exists than the video of Muammar Gaddafi's death in Libya in 2011. Gaddafi voluntarily gave up Libya's chemical weapons caches in 2003 in exchange for easing of sanctions and international pressure on his regime.

In 2011, when Libya erupted in civil war, the US along with NATO allies peppered targets and forces loyal to Gaddafi, and within six months, the one-time ruler was beaten in the streets, killed, and had his body defiled with a soldier's bayonet.

http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-north-korea-denuclearizes-violent-overthrow-2018-3

The only way denuclearization works is if Russia and China provide a nuclear umbrella over North Korea akin to Article 5 of the NATO treaty.

[Squinch]

1. This promised meeting and this "deal" are never going to happen.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. He's not going to get rid of his nukes. His nukes are what gets him what he wants.

Not that this meeting is going to happen. But it's what makes other countries listen.

[Hoyt]

3. True. We never would have invaded Iraq if they had WMDs, or even a decent military.