In my view it has to be a deal which involves strict supervision of the denuclerisation of North Korea, with a very tight tightframe for inspectors to be on the ground and clear rules for sanctions to go back on (and heavier) if targets aren’t met. North Korea get a lift of sanctions. So similar to the Iran deal, with stricter timelines.
North Korea has used too many “deals” in the past as simply a way to delay making any changes, an opportunity to keep working on their nuclear/missile technology and a temporary respite of sanctions. The west has not had any meaningful success from any of the deals. For that reason, for any deal out of this meeting to be a success in my book it can’t involve any delays, or opportunities for North Korea to weasel out of its commitments without harsh sanctions coming straight back on.
You seem to be woefully ignorant of the past history with North Korea. Plenty of attempts have been done.
Out of curiosity, will you be comparing any deal to the Iran deal? Is that a minimum benchmark for you since you think it was such a failure?
I agree on the first bit of praising him if he achieves something. I completely disagree with the second bit - “small steps” have been North Korea’s motto for avoiding any real confrontations and building their nuclear program for the last 20 years. And I totally agree with the final point (that he doesn’t fuck it up).
The chance of North Korea nuking anybody (apart from themselves in an accident) is probably close to zero. The truth that 100,000+ innocent people are being starved and tortured by a brutal regime is 99% certain.
Pretending to solve A and allowing B to continue is a massive fail. Shame on China for allowing this to continue just across from their border, but it is the international community which is collectively responsible to rescue these people.
Solving A is intended to mitigate B.
And the Nth Korean leadership is the one responsible for starving and torturing its people. Lets not absolve them of their responsibilities here.
In the past 24 hours Trump’s administration have said there is a “special place in hell” for Canada’s Justin Trudeau, and have heaped praise on the guy who sent one of their citizens home to his family brain dead in quite recent times. That in itself is surely a remarkable juxtaposition.
Solving A is theatre for an international audience. It will not in any way stop the crazy korean from torturing some of his own people, as fear is how he holds onto power.
Trump is a pig who appeals to other pigs. On that, he appears to do better negotiating on a transactional level with despots than maintaining alliances.
But regardless, if he can play a small part in reducing the incidence of nuclear weapons, then kudos to him for that - it would be his first positive achievement. Meanwhile, lets see how it plays out.
Yeah, the guy with all the fantastic weapons, the best weapons, who also threatens to use them. Not his fault he inherited them mind you, but he’s not offering to downsize is he? I’ll be surprised if this turns out to be anything more than a show in the long term. Special K’s just going to concede, just like that??
So if I understand correctly from the brief skim of some articles - pretty much nothing was agreed beyond high level platitudes which North Korea have signed to and ignored for decades.
So North Korea got global recognition and the west got …