A perfect opportunity for The Duce to live up to his campaign talk and begin withdrawal of American military from the Korean peninsula, putting the SK government on notice that our commitment to defend them will end with the departure of the last American troop or naval vessel, and perhaps also putting the world on notice we no longer object to SK becoming a nuclear power, if it so wishes.
Or perhaps he could just notify SK, NK, and China formally that this is what will happen if either NK does not stand down its nuclear program or SK continues to make its absurd claim to a veto.
But Trump, the reality TV president, is phony to the bone.
Kim Jong-un’s Overture Could Drive a Wedge Between South Korea and the U.S.
Beyond a New Year’s declaration by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, that he would move to the mass production of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles in 2018 lies a canny new strategy to initiate direct talks with South Korea in the hope of driving a wedge into its seven-decade alliance with the United States.
Mr. Kim, perhaps sensing the simmering tension between President Trump and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, called for an urgent dialogue between the two Koreas before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the South next month.
The strained relationship between the allies has been playing out for months, as Mr. Moon, a liberal, argued for economic and diplomatic openings with the North, even as Mr. Trump has worked hard to squeeze the North with increasingly punishing sanctions.
Mr. Moon also angered Mr. Trump and his aides in recent months by suggesting he holds what he called a veto over any American pre-emptive military action against the North’s nuclear program.
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