Tag: North Korea
Wanted: A Plan for Nuclear Diplomacy
Trump will have no remaining choice but to “live with” a nuclear North Korea, and the United States will finally have to focus on meaningfully tangible and authentically realistic goals.
It’s time to talk substance...
Trump, Kim and the ‘good citizen’
One of the many memorable scenes in “The Lives of Others”—an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police in the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic—involves the indiscreet telling of a...
The United States and North Korea: Deterrence, Not “Denuclearization”
“Men as a rule willingly believe what they want to believe.” (Julius Caesar, Caesar's Gallic War, Book III, Chapter 18)
Following the manifestly inconclusive Singapore summit, when not even the definition of "complete denuclearization" could be agreed upon,...
Netanyahu commends Trump on North Korea summit, stance on Iranian nukes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended U.S. President Donald Trump on his “historic” summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Tuesday.
“I commend U.S. President Donald Trump on the historic summit in Singapore. This...
North Korea, Nuclear Diplomacy, and International Law
"Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatreds, the destruction?"
-Aeschylus, presenting the conclusion of Agamemnon
If US President Donald Trump should sometime manage to re-start the...
Kim Jong Un: ‘Deranged’ Trump will ‘pay dearly’ for threat
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on...
Trump promises North Korea ‘fire and fury’ over nuke threat
President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary ultimatum to North Korea on Tuesday warning Pyongyang not to make any more threats against the United States or they will "face fire and fury like the world...