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Credit where it’s due — Trump is doing a good job with North Korea
As much as Trump has a strategy in North Korea — it appears to be some mercurial combinations of bluster, flattery, and indifference; one could be charitable and call it an unpredictable strategy based on, what former US Ambassador Hong Seok-Hyun labeled as, “peace through strength,” — I would say that what this administration has done so far in regards to North Korea is remarkably, demonstrably, effective.
President Trump has inherited a situation only one other president has, a nuclear North Korea. All due respect to him but President Obama’s efforts were ineffective at best as their nuclear capabilities continued to grow in both sophistication and quantity during his presidency. A new strategy is obviously called for, which may or may not be what the Trump administration is doing. We don’t know how much is deliberate and thought out or how much is shoot from the hip…cowboy diplomacy. The good news is that one could argue with honest philosophical consistency that a) Trump may not know what he is doing and b) what he’s doing appears to be working.
