President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their bilateral meeting at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018.Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Morton H. Halperin, 38 North: Donald Trump’s Instincts Are Mostly Right on North Korea, His Advisors Are the Problem
Despite his reckless threats and taunts last year and his premature statement that there is no longer a North Korean nuclear threat made immediately after the Singapore Summit in June, President Trump has taken—mostly—sensible steps to reduce the risk of war and make possible the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. What’s more, is that he’s done so over the objections of his advisors, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and Washington’s foreign policy establishment.
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WNU Editor: Too early to say where the Korean peace talks will eventually lead. But the above author is certainly right when he says that is .... time to give quiet, painstaking diplomacy a chance.
