... program Iran would be unable to obtain a nuclear weapon quickly. Consequently, it would not be able to follow in the footsteps of North Korea. Having developed nuclear warheads and means of delivery, the DPRK can negotiate from the position of strength. The ... ... the JCPOA. Barack Obama confronted Congress during his presidency and had to go to great lengths to get the deal through. With Donald Trump, the position defended by Obama’s opponents who denied any concessions for Iran was placed back on the agenda. ...
... from the U.S., had been achieved, and the nuclear missile race could be suspended. The second reason for détente was South Korea’s behaviour. It’s not only a matter of Moon Jae-in’s initial campaign slogan of restoring dialogue with Pyongyang. Donald Trump’s aggressive 2017 rhetoric aimed at North Korea played its part, too. For the first time in several decades, the world faced the threat of a real war on the Korean Peninsula that would be started by the U.S. South Korea would be the main victim as it would take a major strike from the north....
... congressional elections deals a blow to his critics, who constantly rebuke the president for appeasing the Kremlin. By destroying one of the two remaining pillars of the U.S.-Russian arms control architecture (the New START Treaty is now the last one standing), Donald Trump comes across far more hawkish on Russia than Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats.
In a practical sense, scrapping the INF Treaty gives Washington free rein to threaten North Korea while also pressuring China, the country Trump deliberately alluded to when announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty.
If the negotiations on the denuclearization of North Korea fail—and it’s hard to imagine that Pyongyang will completely ...
US and North Korea have called the Summit a historic success, but it was also a compulsion in light of lack of alternatives
The world is talking of this Summit as a historic moment with hopes that it will bring peace to Korean Peninsula. Reading between the ...
... Valdai Club expert Gleb Ivashentsov, there are many obstacles for the meeting, and we have to wait for what the DPRK will say and how the US will behave before and in course of the negotiations.
The significance of reports on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be overestimated. The US president said that the DPRK leader is ready to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with him. But Kim Jong-un himself did not publicly state anything on the issue. The relevant ...
... realized. Putin himself will go with who has the strongest hand. So, eventually will China. Thus, Trump must be firm with Putin. Buzzing our planes is not acceptable. It may be no coincidence that the Russian provocation happened within 24 hours of the North Korean one. This action is the sort of contemptuous gestures Putin used with the practitioner of “strategic patience,” Barack Obama. Our new president, Donald Trump, paying for his too willing outreach to Putin. Knowing our president, he doesn’t want to be another Obama! We must respond in a tough way. The president must go to the brink and even consider taking out the North Korean site that launched ...
... mogul Aris Agalarov. This is the same Agalarov whose family manager, Rob Goldstone, arranged the June 9, 2016 meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and a lobbying group headed by Russian lawyer Natalia Vesselnitskaya. She is ... ...
“Toxic” Putin
The canceled summit prevented Trump from exploring with Putin a possible dual Russian-Chinese embargo of North Korea. However, Trump does at times display naiveté about foreign leaders, who might try to exploit his lack of experience....
“The Kremlin really believes the North Korean leadership should get additional assurances and confidence that the United States is not in the regime change business,” Andrey Kortunov, head of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think-tank close to the Russian Foreign Ministry,...
