For Trump, a meeting with Kim is the ultimate test

President Trump, popping unannounced into the White House briefing room late Thursday, apparently just couldn't contain himself -- and with good reason.

A senior South Korean delegation had just spent the afternoon with the President and his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, carrying a remarkable letter from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

It was an invitation by Kim to meet with the President as soon as possible. And Trump promptly accepted. He had no choice -- if he hadn't, the world would be poised for a long, potentially deadly spiral into nuclear conflict. But there is still a tortuous path ahead before we'll see an end to the nuclear threat on the Korean Peninsula and far beyond.

Acceptance of Kim's invitation means reversing a long string of threats and calumny Trump has heaped on the North Korean leader -- all of which he appeared to believe in devoutly until now. And that will require some remarkable and utterly uncharacteristic restraint.

 

 

 

Source: Edition.cnn