The Quincy Institute’s Jessica Lee speaks to Kelley Vlahos, Daniel Larison, and Matt Purple on this week’s Empire Has No Clothes. She explains what Donald Trump has gotten right and wrong on North Korea and whether there’s still hope for a peace deal. They also discuss H.R. McMaster’s new piece pushing back against the realists and why he wants to keep the forever wars going forever.
“Mayor Park was likely a presidential candidate in 2022,” said Jessica Lee, a Korea expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington think tank. “So, his passing is not just a shock for the Korean people but may have long-term implications for the continuation of President Moon’s conciliatory foreign policy.”
“Time is not on Trump’s side,” said Ms Jessica Lee, senior research fellow of East Asia at Quincy Institute. “But this may be precisely why Kim would be open to a new round of talks, since Trump will be far less capable of playing for time as he did in the previous rounds. “Trump is in a greater need of a win than Kim is.”
