Opinion: Trump’s denuclearization strategies for Iran and North Korea are totally opposite. Why?
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before their meeting in Hanoi on Thursday. By Michael McFaul Michael McFaul Bio Follow Contributing columnist March 1 at 4:30 PM For years now, President Trump and his administration have been advancing a fundamentally illogical contradiction in their nuclear diplomacy toward Iran and North Korea. In both cases, the stated public goal of Trump administration policy is the same: denuclearization.
The administration’s efforts to explain the divergence in its approaches make little sense. In negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration, we are told, took many other contentious issues in U.S.-Iranian relations off the table.
Trump’s maximum pressure approach toward Iran looks especially illogical when juxtaposed with his charm offensive toward Kim. The president’s strategy — which I cautiously support — is to nurture a direct, personal relationship between the two heads of state as a means toward denuclearization. As far as we know, this approach has achieved little so far .
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