Did we honestly think we could trust a Stalin-plus dictator who murders his relatives and extrajudicially throws many thousands of his citizens into some of the most brutal prison camps in human history?
Not me. Communists are liars. Nixon was a fool for his China gambit.
Kim just hasn’t been squeezed enough. He is likely testing the water to see if Trump is a weak and uncommitted as his predecessors were. It’s the NK version of Art of the Deal.
First and foremost, Kim is all about protecting Kim. If he sees that he is about to lose everything, he will be very cooperative. People talk about reunification but I think that has not been on his mind. He wants to remain leader of NK but also be a respected player on the world stage. He is also a very spoiled and delusional man-child that isn’t used to being told no. Time to put his twig and berries in a vice and start cranking the handle.
People were calling for the Nobel on this.. so i would say, yes. They love deals with murderers and con artists.
Thats why we have no wall and trilluons more in debt.
You are right. That people on FR still think NK is operating with sincerity, or that they are telling the truth, or that they can somehow be trusted, or they they are going to negotiate in good faith and that all problems on the Korean Peninsula “snap!” are now somehow gone just. like. that. overnight... well....—has got to be one of the oddest things I have seen in a long time on this forum, at least in my 21 years here.