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    The ‘Compliment Trump’ Doctrine

    “You are, indeed, the only person who can solve this problem,” South Korea’s Moon Jae In told his counterpart about North Korea—just before he amped up the pressure.
    by Uri Friedman Sep 26, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Updated on September 25 at 1:25 ET

    NEW YORK—When Moon Jae In and Donald Trump met at the United Nations on Monday, South Korea’s president hailed his American counterpart for helping guide nuclear talks to a point where “North Korea’s decision to relinquish its nuclear program has been officialized to a degree that not even those within North Korea can reverse.”

    “You are, indeed, the only person who can solve this problem,” Moon said of Trump, employing the kind of superlative language that Trump adores and that earned the American president during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. “Thanks to your bold decision and new approach, we are in the process of solving a problem that no one has been able to solve in the decades past.” The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, who just met with Moon

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