Donald Trump, North Korea, and the Case of the Phantom Armada

I think everybody would like to keep North Korea in its place: North Korea without weapons. The usual analysis of North Korea is that the Americans have to get the Chinese to put pressure on the North Koreans. They want North Korea to reform its economy so that they don't have 22 million starving people across the border. If there was a real change in Beijing about what they wanted from North Korea, what would that actually consist of? So it seems like you're saying that Trump's "crazy card" might actually have been helpful here, vis-à-vis both North Korea and China.


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Donald Trump, North Korea, and the Case of the Phantom Armada

The Trump Administration is dealing with a regime whose capacity for self-deceiving self-aggrandizement exceeds its own. Trump may believe that carrier movements are no different from marketing ploys, and require as little truth-telling, but North Korea is a real and dangerous country. Just when you think you see the contours of Trump's phantom menace, he comes up with a Phantom Fleet. "I said, 'Look, we have ships headed there,' " President Donald J. Trump told the Wall Street Journal on April 12th, recounting the straight talk that he had handed to President Xi Jinping, of China, on the subject of North Korea. It was in the Indian Ocean, headed in the opposite direction, for exercises with what might be described as the Australian Armada.




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