Nuclear Tact
It was possible that Kim could be playing games. The tension between the two leaders was very heated for months. The men were known to call each other by demeaning names and made many threats.
This talk shouldn’t be taken lightly and the World may be hoping that these talks would bring about a peaceable solution between the two.
It would also mean the leaders would be more at ease and some level of calmness would return to the Korean Peninsula.
Regarding denuclearization the Senator said it would be very unlikely, but this would only be clear after the talks, once they took place.
“Is it realistic that he’s just willy-nilly going to do that? Absolutely not,” Corker said. “But, you know, progress can be made, freezing the program, who knows what he’s — what his ambitions are as it relates to South Korea.”
“Well, I think this announcement on Friday is better than continued testing, but it’s not much better than that,” he said. “But I do think they show that the President has put Kim Jong Un on the wrong foot for the first time.”
