What if Trump Brings North Korea Around?

Trump says behind-the-scenes efforts to entice North Korea into the community of nations have shown slow but steady progress. He allows that his personal relationship with Kim Jong Un has warmed, and that with the right incentives the dictator could conceivably come around.  This would be a tremendous coup for the President — an accomplishment so significant and praiseworthy that even his most hardened foes would find it difficult to criticize. The worst they could say is that we shouldn’t trust Mr. Kim. But so what?

Trump’s success would start to look even better as North Korea did what everyone knows it can do — i.e., lift itself from economic hell to become an industrial powerhouse like South Korea. Were this to happen, Trump’s legacy as a consequential president would be sealed.  China is in no mood at the moment to help bring the two sides together, but that could change. Meanwhile, Mr. Kim has asked the Pope to visit. This is a very peculiar request, considering that North Korea is one of the harshest environments in the world for Christianity. Even so, it’s hard to imagine a cynical purpose behind the request. Taken at face value, it can only suggest that North Korea is capable of surprising the world in a good way.

  • none October 10, 2018, 5:34 am

    To have a General or President become ‘great or outstanding towards history’, the history that revolves around him must be ‘great and outstanding’.

    Great and outstanding history is a place in time where ‘major’ shifts and changes take place for the entire world not one sector of it. Most times, actually all the times before its because of major warfare.

    Trump does have some very interesting and great possibilities to fill the role, to become a ‘great’ Leader and President in history.

    Have a great day Rick.

  • Ben October 9, 2018, 10:04 pm

    If President Trump manages to pull this off, he’ll not only be guaranteed another term — which is pretty much a given, at this point — but whoever he endorses in 2024 will also have it in the bag.

    But North Korea is not the only point of victory. Trump is ultimately putting pressure on China — left (Iran), right (NK), and center (China itself). Something has to give because there’s a stranglehold on the whole thing. Highly unlikely, in my estimation, that nothing will happen! Just a matter of when…

  • Rich October 9, 2018, 9:51 pm

    Kim Jong Un thoroughly westernized at Swiss Boarding School.