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Trump’s Korea Blunder Is Worse Than It Looks
Kim Jong Un appears shrewd. China is stronger. And U.S. allies know not to trust Washington.
So much for gut instincts.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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Donald Trump thinks he's a great negotiator, a brilliant bluffer whose gut instincts are so stellar that ignorance of history and refusal to deal with substantive complexities are irrelevant.
That's why he bragged he'd win the Nobel Peace Prize for his genius in getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. Except, of course, it didn't. It's good his Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un was canceled. The larger picture in this and other major issues is how the American president is remarkably ill-prepared and uninformed.