OPINION - EDITORIAL
Call Kim Jong Un’s bluff
By Post Editorial Board
May 16, 2018 | 8:04pm
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After North Korea this week abruptly threatened to pull out of next month’s Singapore summit on Pyongyang’s nuclear program, President Trump was uncharacteristically cautious and noncommittal — which is just the right way to play it.
“We’ll see,” said Trump on Wednesday in response to the rant from North Korea’s vice foreign minister denouncing any effort to “drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment.”
No such “unilateral” deal was ever going to happen, of course: Kim Jong-un will get something (sanctions relief, economic aid) in return for what National Security Adviser John Bolton insists must be “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.”
The bluster came as Pyongyang canceled talks with Seoul, supposedly over long-planned US-South Korean military exercises.
If it’s all a bluff — a test of whether Team Trump, dazzled by talk of a Nobel Peace Prize, can be rolled into up-front concessions — and the prez must call it.
If it’s not a bluff, better to know now, so Washington can go back to finding new ways to create pain for the Kim regime.
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