North Korea

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Why would they give up their nukes after witnessing what happened in the Ukraine, Iraq, and Libya ?

Let's say China and North Korea enter into a formal mutual defense agreement and North Korea trusts China to be the guarantor of their sovereignty if they give up their nukes. That would make China the hegemon in Asia, something they aspire to, and something the United States and China's neighbors hope to avoid.

Trump is doing everything he can from his protectionist threats to his withdrawal from the Paris Accords to his go it alone ultra nationalism to make this the Chinese century. That's a shame. Our political and economic model is infinitely better.

[global1]

1. Maybe Kim Jong Un Thinks Like Trump And Is Just....

resurfacing this summit so that he can write Trump a letter an pull out? Maybe this new talk of the summit still going on is just a ploy to further make Trump look foolish?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. An analogy

If I lived in a state of nature and there was no sovereign and my neighbor threatened to batter me with his club I would get a club of my own. What's to ensure Kim's survival if he gives up his nukes ?

In the unlikely even he "contracts out" his defense to China that creates problems of its own.


Kim's end game is to militarily decouple America from South Korea. Everything else is commentary.