Much is being made about Trump's stepping over into North Korea for the third try to convince a communist dictator who inherited his iron fist from his grandfather and father to abandon his nuclear ambitions:
Consider that Trump was also very optimistic about things during the summit in Vietnam, as well.
Trump forgets, as his predecessors did ("forget" is used in the weakest sense of the word - "deliberately overlooked" would be a little more accurate), that North Korea has never given anyone reason to trust it, that it has reverted to testing its missiles and producing nuclear weapons and that it is still a communist buffer state for China.
Putting pressure on China would be a more effective measure to keel North Korea on its side.
Too late:
Nixon thought he could control China. Reagan had no illusions about Russia.
Trump may inherit the whirlwind of Nixon's faulty thinking.
U.S. President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks.
The meeting, initiated by a spur-of-the-moment tweet by Trump that Kim said took him by surprise, once again displayed the rapport between the two. But they are no closer to narrowing the gap between their positions since they walked away from their summit in February in Vietnam.The two men shook hands warmly and expressed hopes for peace when they met for the third time in just over a year on the old Cold War frontier that for decades has symbolized the hostility between their countries, which are technically still at war.
Consider that Trump was also very optimistic about things during the summit in Vietnam, as well.
Trump forgets, as his predecessors did ("forget" is used in the weakest sense of the word - "deliberately overlooked" would be a little more accurate), that North Korea has never given anyone reason to trust it, that it has reverted to testing its missiles and producing nuclear weapons and that it is still a communist buffer state for China.
Putting pressure on China would be a more effective measure to keel North Korea on its side.
Too late:
The U.S. and China declared a truce in their trade war on Saturday, as Donald Trump said he would hold off imposing an additional $394 billion (US$300 billion) in tariffs and the world’s two largest economies agreed to resume negotiations.
After a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump told reporters on Saturday that he also would delay restrictions against Huawei Technologies Co., letting U.S. companies resume sales to China’s largest telecommunications equipment maker.
Trump outlined the deal following the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, but the White House released no details about the arrangement worked out by the two leaders. The president’s comments may remove an immediate threat from a trade war looming over the global economy even as a lasting peace remains elusive.
Nixon thought he could control China. Reagan had no illusions about Russia.
Trump may inherit the whirlwind of Nixon's faulty thinking.
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