From what I understand Fatboy was required to refrain for at least 60 days before the Chinese would meet with him ....he met that and so they did meet with ‘officials’ but not FatBoy directly... therefore the meetings were not successful. Once that was over then of course he proceeded to fire his missle this week.
His entire agenda now is buying time....so far we’re everyone is dancing to his tune.....but you can be certain it won’t continue as so.
Not familiar with that angle, but I agree, Kim buys time.