“If you are the Trump White House right now, you’ve got to be very concerned,” said John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School. “As much as the official White House line says that maximum pressure is what brought about yet another diplomatic summit, the reality is you move away from the primary focus on maximum pressure to one huge massive pressure release valve.”…
While Bolton has said that he’ll start with a fresh slate, earlier this month that Trump should demand North Korea immediately agree to pack up and ship its nuclear program to the U.S. — similar to what happened in Libya. If Kim refused, he added, it could be a “very short meeting.”
“These military options are back on the table, so North Korea needs a stronger China in the whole negotiating process,” said Bernt Berger, senior fellow on Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
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