The president may be a diplomatic wrecking ball, but he believes his investment in Korea is too big to fail. That’s a good thing.
Trump’s Investment in North Korea
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The president may be a diplomatic wrecking ball, but he believes his investment in Korea is too big to fail. That’s a good thing.
With all eyes on North Korea since its third nuclear test, remarkably little has been said about how we arrived at this crisis point. Inadequately contextualized as North Korea’s response to fortified UN sanctions, the latest nuclear test bespeaks the failure of U.S. diplomacy toward its historic enemy. As he enters his second term, Barack Obama must confront the role of strategic patience as a central driver of the simmering crisis in Korea.