It obviously hasn't occurred to the author that North Korea has been playing just this type of game since the 80s.

North Korea has to come to the table with no preconditions and with the clear understanding that the goal of the US is to remove all nukes from the Korean peninsula.

Perhaps Trump should put nukes into South Korea again?

When you and your employer think alike? One of you is clearly redundant!

Donald likes to surround himself with yes men to reinforce his flawed view of reality? And highly flawed economic rationalism! When the most important voice and view in the room is the dissenting one! That then forces a review and examination plus a rationale that reinforces your view or enables you to abandon it as poorly thought through or unachievable!
When a fool surrounds himself with likeminded fools or loose cannons like Bolton?
Don't be too surprised if he comes out with egg all over his face and ruined outcomes? And a world where populists have condemned it to a new Great Depression? Is that what d Trump meant, when he said Make America Great again? With Great big unrepayable debt and a world teetering at the dawn of economic destruction?
Alan B.

So Trump is a Manhattan yokel, poorly educated about the outside world (wouldn't know Libya from his elbow). And he may be morally unfit to be President. Who cares.

But hey, he is a Billionaire who bought the Presidency, who also relied on Russian intelligence to beat Hillary.

He IS the President and rightly above the law.

So does it matter if Trump starts World War 3 or Wrestlemania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I&t=106s ?

Hi SM,

Perhaps your first sentence should read: "It obviously hasn't occurred to Trump and his myrmidons that North Korea (and China, and Japan) have been playing just this type of game since the 80s."

So in return for complete denuclearisation, as you demand, what will these bully-children offer Kim ? Is that likely to happen ? Really ? I think the North Koreans (and the Chinese) will run rings around Trump and Bolton and Pompeo, for months to come. They may even cut the Yanks out of the peace process altogether, and negotiate just with South Korea (with China and Japan on the side).

Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong-Un ? Stranger things have happened. But not as strange as Trump ever getting it.

Cheers,

Joe

Plantagenet, I presume you're trying to be droll, but you're a bit light on for facts. The "Arab Spring" was Obama's doing. He brought about the circumstances where a rampaging mob was able to drag Gaddafi into the street and kill him with a knife up the arse. One might argue that such a fate was deserved, but it had nothing whatsoever to do with President Trump. Nor did President Trump "buy the presidency", since the Republican campaign spent much, much less than did the crooked Democrats. Mind you, President Trump had a massive advantage - Hillary Clinton, a clapped out old slapper who still hasn't figured out why she lost. In a just universe, Clinto would by now have faced retribution for her actions re Benghazi, her breaches of security via her unsecured email accounts and the many other acts of arrogance and incompetence, treated kindly by her friends and enablers at the FBI and DoJ. You say he "relied on Russian intelligence to beat Hillary." And your evidence for that is? Nothing. Mueller doesn't have the evidence after shovelling crap for more than a year and you have a lot less than that. But stick with your vacuous opinions, they're good for a laugh. You're just part of the delusional Leftist pap that now plagues the planet.

Trump is the first president to try to do anything definite about North Korea and, along with everything else he has done, he will be successful.