North Korea’s offer to suspend nuclear and missile tests in exchange for talks with the US reflects an emerging truth about President Donald Trump’s unconventional foreign policy style: It may heighten the risk of conflict, but also the potential for breakthroughs.
As Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday: “the US is ready to go hard in either direction.”
Few diplomats or analysts believe that Kim Jong Un’s offer, relayed by South Korea, will in fact deliver a denuclearized Korean peninsula in exchange for the US security guarantees suggested as a basis for talks.
The Kim dynasty has a history of dangling the
