Perhaps at some point this will result in some kind of normalization of relations with North Korea. China, on the other hand, may be exerting negative pressure on a deal because of our posture on Chinese Trade-Hope Not!Īs I have written many times, any day that we are not in a nuclear crisis is better than the alternative. We agreed to the denuclearization of North Korea. I have confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake. Trump, who had grandly proclaimed after the summit that we could all sleep easily because North Korea was “no longer a nuclear threat,” responded to the Pompeo debacle with a tweet that practically begged his pal Kim to stop making him look bad and suggested that China was pulling the strings. It’s pretty clear they would prefer to deal directly with the president, for obvious reasons. The North Koreans really ran him through his paces and in the end contradicted his happy talk about “progress” by complaining that the US was acting “gangster-like” with its demands that they denuclearize. Frankly, since Trump chatted alone with Kim for some time and the agreement they ended up signing was so vague, that may very well be what was agree between them.īloomberg published a fascinating inside look at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s disastrous follow-up trip to Pyongyang last week. He and his government seem to have come away from the talks under the impression that the United States would make even more concessions before North Korea needed to think about doing anything at all. I know this will come as a huge surprise to everyone but it turns out that Kim Jong-un wasn’t actually so enthralled by the force of Donald Trump’s dazzling personality that he rushed back to Pyongyang to order the immediate dismantling of his nuclear program. So get ready: This could be a wild ride.īefore Trump gets back on Air Force One we should catch up on the latest news surrounding his last bit foray into international gamesmanship, the pageant in Singapore last month. Odds are that he is feeling his oats after handing the rose to his latest Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, which he sees as yet another unprecedented accomplishment due to his leadership genius.
Today begins the latest installment of Donald Trump’s great global demolition derby as he leaves for the annual meeting of NATO allies, a meet and greet with the queen of England and a big bilateral summit in Finland with his favorite authoritarian oligarch, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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