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Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un

11 June 2018

3:35 PM

11 June 2018

3:35 PM

Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to make a deal in which North Korea gives up its nuclear program in exchange for a range of benefits – to be negotiated. This is the end game of a strategy which probably began to take shape some years ago, possibly within a year or two of his becoming Supreme Leader in 2011.

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