Esper also hosted a trilateral meeting in Bangkok to urge his South Korean and Japanese counterparts to avoid scuttling a three-way intelligence-sharing agreement. “The administration is not connecting the dots on what’s happening between us and North Korea, between us and our allies and between our allies,” said former North Korea nuclear negotiator Joel Wit. ADADIf the North Korea negotiations do collapse, they might not do so all at once. Right now, China is allowing North Korea to evade sanctions by using Chinese territorial waters for illegal ship-to-ship energy transfers. The coming crisis with North Korea will be Kim’s fault, but that will be little consolation if we’re unprepared.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2019 14:02 UTC