by What they don’t want to acknowledge is that Trump’s strategy is working: the North Koreans are making real concessions. Pyongyang’s pledge to undergo inspections and dismantle specific facilities in full view of foreign experts is really the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting – and hoping – for. The implications are enormous, for this means the North Koreans are committing themselves to a formal agreement with detailed provisions allowing access to North Korean facilities and the building of a permanent architecture of observation, perhaps under the aegis of the Nonproliferation Treaty. The progress made by the Singapore group is really being driven, on the ground, by the Koreans. The White
Topics:
David Stockman considers the following as important: Recommended Reads
This could be interesting, too:
David Stockman writes How The Deep State Delivered The Donald Into The Clutches Of His Psychopathic Neocon Trio–Bolton, Pompeo And Abrams
David Stockman writes China’s Short Dollar Problem Comes Out of the Shadows
David Stockman writes The Kim & Vlad Meeting: Changing The Board State In Korea, Drop-Kicking Bolton/Pompeo
David Stockman writes How About Real Academic Freedom: Let Colleges Decide Admission Practices, Not The Fricking FBI
What they don’t want to acknowledge is that Trump’s strategy is working: the North Koreans are making real concessions. Pyongyang’s pledge to undergo inspections and dismantle specific facilities in full view of foreign experts is really the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting – and hoping – for. The implications are enormous, for this means the North Koreans are committing themselves to a formal agreement with detailed provisions allowing access to North Korean facilities and the building of a permanent architecture of observation, perhaps under the aegis of the Nonproliferation Treaty.
The progress made by the Singapore group is really being driven, on the ground, by the Koreans. The White House, delighted, is merely going along for the ride – and eager to take all the credit. Kim and President Moon are quite willing to let Trump claim the crown of laurel leaves, while they both reap the material and psychological benefits of peace – after seventy-plus years of frozen conflict.
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/09/19/korean-breakthrough/