South Korean President Moon Jae-in has offered to join President Trump and North Korean leader Kim in future talks.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday offered to hold three-way talks with President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
“A North Korea-U. S. summit would be a historic event in itself following an inter-Korean summit,” Moon said, according to Reuters . “Depending on the location, it could be even more dramatic. And depending on progress, it may lead to a three-way summit between the South, North and the United States,” he said.
If Moon is concerned about what could come of President Trump and Kim being in a room alone, he’s not the only one. Ever since Trump accepted Kim’s offer to meet and discuss the easing of tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, much as been written — across the political spectrum — about the president’s preparedness and competency in entering such high-level sensitive talks.
For instance, the conservative National Review magazine figured Trump would be an “easy mark” for North Korea, noting that “the president is not given to extensive preparation or attention to detail.” Several experts told Vox that while diplomatic talks were a positive development, they weren’t sure that President Trump could just “wing this;” they worried that the state and defense departments had been “in the dark” and that his administration is “ill-equipped.”
Even the more conservative experts — Bruce Klingner from the Heritage Foundation and Doug Bandow, from the Cato Institute, said that Trump needed to move quickly to fill key advisory positions — including the still-vacant ambassadorial post in Seoul. Bandow told Vox that, “Trump knows little, resists being briefed, and is subject to manipulation, so he is not one to manage alone a complex conversation so fraught with risk.
