Tweety might do something good by talking to North Korea, but he is likely to fail because he is not properly preparing.
My concern is America has a plumber trying out heart surgery . . . . Koreans rightly hate Japanese, hate intruders into their country. Does Tweety understand the ways of the Korean negotiator? Does Tweety intend to honor the Korean culture?
"Give Trump Credit for the North Korea Opening
In this one area at least, the administration’s policy has been focused and effective.
Kori Schake Mar 12, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/trump-north-korea/555341/
"Let Trump and Kim Meet"
Even if a summit gives North Korea legitimacy it doesn’t deserve, talking is preferable to the disastrous alternative.
Isaac Stone Fish Mar 11, 2018
Time will tell if the USA-North Korea meeting benefits anyone.
"North Korea Is Not De-Nuclearizing"
The Trump administration shouldn’t get too excited about Kim Jong Un’s pledge to limit his weapons program.
Adam Mount and Ankit Panda Apr 21, 2018
"Trump's meeting with Kim will lead to an awful hangover"
By Jamie Metzl April 22, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/opinions/trump-kim-meeting-doomed-opinion-metzl/index.html
"Jamie Metzl is a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. He has served on the US National Security Council, at the State Department and on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and is the author of "Genesis Code" and "Eternal Sonata" and the forthcoming book "Homo Sapiens 2.0: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity." Follow him on Twitter @jamiemetzl. The views expressed in this commentary are his own."
"(CNN) If their goal is to eliminate North Korea's nuclear weapons threat, the planned talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are doomed before they even begin.
There is nothing inherently wrong with negotiating with North Korea, but the Trump administration seems to have found the negotiation path that maximizes the potential benefits to the North Koreans while minimizing the benefits to the US and its allies."
"The United States was already at a disadvantage in its dealings with North Korea because the Trump administration has no coherent strategy for dealing with North Korea, while North Korea's leaders have an extremely smart strategy for America. Beginning from the first day of the planned Kim-Trump talks, the US will have already given North Korea the legitimation Pyongyang has sought for decades, a reduction in tensions and a nod toward ending the state of war on the Korean peninsula -- in exchange for very little."
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"By bumbling into face-to-face talks with Kim, Trump has certainly helped reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the Trump administration has so far done very little to counter North Korea's nuclear threat. When this becomes clear, today's feel-good moment will feel more like an awful hangover."
