Now Donald Trump faces North Korea, but stopping its nuclear and missile programme may prove impossible, creating what may be his first and perhaps defining international crisis. Trump has been left to confront North Korea’s nuclear activities because his predecessors failed to manage them. On North Korea they are in the same hole as he is with no real ideas about how to get out. If it failed, the United States would essentially have advertised its inability to intercept a North Korean missile, sparking even greater concern in the region. Trump may see himself as a master of the “art of the deal”, and has raised the prospect he might meet North Korean leaders.

Source: Standard Digital February 14, 2017 21:03 UTC