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The argument in this article about the negotiation between president Trump ,and North Korea.

The latter, in particular, has not been the topic of negotiations in almost two decades, and Mr. Trump could score a victory given his tweets during the campaign that the North's ability to target the United States homeland was"Never gonna happen" while he was president.

Our North Korea policy should never come at the expense of our allies.

While South Korea is clearly on board, so must be Japan, whose leader’s must be suffering a case of diplomatic whiplash after having been Mr. Trump's biggest cheerleader in his campaign to pressure Pyongyang and consider military options.

Second, Mr. Trump should know that his negotiating advantage with Mr. Kim will only be effective if his sanctions pressure and deterrence capabilities remain strong.

Any summit meeting cannot allow Mr. Pence's pronouncements during the Olympics about North Korea's human rights abuses to evaporate into thin air.

In which case, as Mr. Trump has said, we really will have "Run out of road" on North Korea.

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Victor D. Cha is an American academic, author and former national foreign policy advisor. He is a former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council.

Cha received a BA in Economics from Columbia University in 1983, an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Hertford College, Oxford in 1986, an MIA from Columbia, and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia in 1994 with thesis titled Alignment despite antagonism: Japan and Korea as quasi-allies.[8] He was classmates with Barack Obama at Columbia.

I agree with the author according to the evidence that we have  While the unpredictability of a meeting between these two unconventional leaders provides unique opportunities to end the decades-old conflict, its failure could also push the two countries to the brink of war.