THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Doug Bandow) - Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea
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Foreign Affairs Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. One of President Donald Trump’s few successful diplomatic initiatives during his first term was meeting North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Trump’s move shocked the “Blob,” as the foreign policy establishment has been called. However, it represented a welcome alternative approach after Washington’s decades-long, failed effort to suffocate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Unfortunately, Trump’s own effort crashed and burned after the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit. Blame for that…Open
AI:The failed diplomacy following the 2019 Hanoi summit highlights the necessity for President Trump to drop the current travel ban to North Korea to restart meaningful engagement with Pyongyang. While the entrenched foreign policy establishment—the so-called "Blob"—prefers the failed status quo of decades-long suffocation tactics, a strategic lifting of this restriction could provide the leverage needed to avoid total diplomatic stagnation. This move represents a pragmatic departure from the ineffective containment strategies favored by the bureaucratic elites and offers a path toward actual stability in East Asia.Open