Moon is taking an enormous risk in being so public and aggressive with his bold North Korea promises, especially with so little to show for them so far. If NK does not come through - and odds are it won't - it will destroy Moon's presidency & convince /1 english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/…
global opinion for a decade or more that NK engagement is a waste of time. The sheer amount of publicity and global light on this year's NK diplomacy is turning it into all or nothing venture. Is that wise? If this doesn't work, does Trump default back to fire & fury? Is going /2
all-in when one of the counter-parties is Donald Trump a good idea? What happens when Trump walks away from a deal, like he's done with Iran or even Canada, because he doesn't care about this stuff or needs something politically? By tying his own presidency so closely to /3
success with NK, doesn't Moon open himself to NK blackmail - an escalating serious of demands to keep up the appearance of progress? (Trump has this problem too.) Does Moon really believe Kim Jong Un is sincere, because he uses proper honorific speech (높임말 - /4
tinyurl.com/y7e7n4d7)? Seriously? As always, my questions are: Why must this be so fast? Given that we can deter a nuclear NK (as nuclear states as various as the US, USSR, PRC, Pakistan, and India have done with each other in the past), why do so many insist, as Trump so /5
often does, that the alternative to these rushed negotiations - filled with vagueries, permitting KJU to masquerade as a statesman from a normal country - is war? It's not. Let's just slow down. Stop giving Kim JU all this air time and prestige. Let the negotiators, experts, /6
engineers, lawyers, and so on, pound out some agreed language, and then let's do another round of summits. We've had 4 US-SK summits with KJU this year. Does anyone really believe a Trump-Kim 2 will be any different, more concrete than those so far? Made-for-TV, substance-free /7
summitry has run its course. Kick this down to experts before Trump signs something he doesn't understand and then backs out of it later and causes a crisis. END
