We haven't seen much coverage here of Trump's South Korean visit. He was in Japan....and now he's in China, where he and President Xi Jinping are being ever so nice to each other. The bit in between didn't feature. But it was there, in Seoul, that he made a speech which Joshua Stanton calls the "best thing he's done in his entire life".
It's that Trump paradox again: a man manifestly unfit to be president in so many ways, yet capable of hitting the right note where his predecessors failed.
But read Stanton's post....
The Stanton piece is very good, as always. Bizarrely though the Trump speech seems to have been overshadowed by a spat over shrimp from what Stanton terms "two uninhabited guano-stained rocks". The SK attitude to NK is indeed incomprehensible, except as wilful denial - perhaps seeing NK for what it is would open up what Lord Denning once described as "an appalling vista". And the tenured geniuses are not readily going to change their minds either - here's the same old song from the NYT - not really worth wasting time on but as I have it handy I post it here just in case. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/opinion/trump-north-korea-talk.html
Posted by: Richard Powell | November 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM