Thread by @BonicMichael

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2/Paranoia cuts deep, and crusty old generals living in the past lend not to today's required solution. America will truly become GREAT if the world sees us extending an olive branch to a fearless intrepid country that has stood up to our nuclear threats to say: Let's live in ☮️.

3/A geopolitical conundrum that has spanned half a century can be resolved by cutting the Gordian knot of denuclearization. I've proposed a Glass Half-Full Deal 👇🏿that, if Kim Jong Un signs it, will put the brakes on DPRK's current bolstering of its

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4/nuclear and ICBM programs. Expert analysts have stated that the continued pursuit of DPRK's complete denuclearization is virtually a lost cause as they won't give up the only thing that's protecting them, yet they might agree to limiting their nuclear arsenal. Going into 2021

5/requires a completely new assessment & strategy. Can the US live w/ the DPRK's current nuclear arsenal? If the answer is yes, this deal 👆signed by both leaders will guarantee DPRK goes no further, ever, in its nuclear development. This is "cutting the Gordian knot". The ONLY

6/entity having an equivalent security guarantee value as nuclear deterrence is an agreement tending towards peaceful relations (the opposite of so-called "hostile policy") that would be spun to domestic audiences as our two countries being on the road to an eventual Peace Treaty

7/that has to be ratified by a 2/3 Congress vote. By Kim Jong Un agreeing to permanently cap/freeze/terminate all future progress in nuclear and ICBM/SLBM development, a commitment greater than just the word he gave to Trump re the double moratorium, the climate in Congress may

8/change if US-DPRK relations significantly change and the conditions of the Deal are met. (One of which is USFK stay in South Korea in perpetuity.) I'm pretty sure Pyongyang is absolutely loathe to confront the US in a "nuclear showdown", however they believe they have no choice

9/but to be prepared for any future scenario where a future POTUS may be much less amiable to DPRK than Trump has been. Nukes to DPRK are a matter of survival, and not just from an attack by the US but by other actors. They won't give up completely their last line of defense.

10/But if like a bolt from the blue Donald Trump, riding a Peace Train of peace treaties in the Middle East, offers to accept a nuclear DPRK, as long as it abides in the conditions mentioned above 👆, they know this will be a one-time chance to get a deal this good from the U.S..

11/I believe Kim would sign. They want ☮️ badly. They expected it in 1953. 67 years later they still don't have it. They want normalized relations w/ the US and want to put the Cold War forever behind. Letting DPRK keep what they currently have IMO is THE key to ☮️ on the KP.