Opinion: Give Trump credit for refusing to accept less than denuclearization in North Korea
President Trump’s critics are carping that his top-down negotiating model undermined his nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un because the details hadn’t been settled on at lower levels of diplomacy. We give Mr. Trump more credit for walking away from a deal that would not have required North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
Despite the long history of the North’s military threats, only recently has it developed and tested both nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them across the Pacific. The Hwasong-15 missile, successfully...Michael Cohen’s testimony proved again that Mr. Trump has associated with some dreadful characters—and has no great character himself—but Democrats will need more credible witnesses to impeach the President.
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