March 09, 2018

Donald Trump's historic bet on Kim Jong Un summit shatters decades of orthodoxy

Featuring: Patrick M. Cronin

Source: The Straits Times

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - US President Donald Trump took the biggest gamble of his presidency on Thursday (March 8), breaking decades of US diplomatic orthodoxy by accepting an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The bet is that Mr Trump's campaign to apply maximum economic pressure on Mr Kim's regime has forced him to consider what was previously unthinkable: surrendering the illicit nuclear weapons programme begun by his father.

If the president is right, the US would avert what appeared at times last year (2017) to be a steady march towards a second Korean War.

Read the full article in The Strait Times.

Author

  • Patrick M. Cronin

    Former Senior Advisor and Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program

    Patrick M. Cronin is a former Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Previously, he was the ...