The Contradiction Buried in Trump’s Iran and North Korea Policies<br />Wendy said that If the President pulls back on the Iran deal, given Iranian compliance<br />If Mr. Trump makes good on his threat to pull out of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, how will he then convince the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un,<br />that America will honor the commitment to integrate North Korea into the world community if only it disarms — the demand Mr. Trump made from the podium of the United Nations.<br />20, 2017<br />President Trump is now fully engaged in two nuclear confrontations, one with Iran over a nuclear accord he finds an "embarrassment" and the other with North Korea<br />that is forcing the Pentagon to contemplate for the first time in decades what a resumption of the Korean War might look like.<br />If Mr. Morell is right — and no one will know until the North Korean regime collapses<br />and inspectors can assess the extent of its technology — Mr. Trump faces a problem far more urgent than the one that confronted President Barack Obama in Iran.<br />What is missing from this debate is obvious: If Mr. Tillerson extracted anything resembling the Iran agreement from North Korea,<br />it would mark a historic breakthrough, one any of the four previous American presidents would rightly have celebrated.<br />In the best case scenario, some administration officials say, the Trump administration would be lucky to win a nuclear "freeze"<br />that keeps North Korea from conducting more nuclear and missile tests.
