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    Trump's Triumph, Trump's Folly

    Either the president has succeeded with North Korea where his predecessors have failed, or he has fallen into the same trap that ensnared them.
    by David A. Graham Apr 27, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    All politics, even geopolitics, is domestic. (Sorry, Tip.) Friday’s historic meeting between North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-In represents an important milestone on the Korean Peninsula, but it is also an important moment for President Trump, for whom North Korean proliferation has been a major foreign-policy challenge.

    Discerning what the latest news means for Trump, however, is no easy feat. Using nearly the identical set of publicly available facts, one can make a plausible argument that either Trump has succeeded where others have failed for decades, or that Trump is falling into the same trap his predecessors did. In fact, that is just what I have tried to do here.

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    The Korean Rapprochement Is Trump’s Vindication

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