Prime minister and the expectations

When Dictator meets Democrat

-Vatsala Mishra

The recent meeting in Singapore has made the entire world awestruck. The reactions coming out straight from the White House are not normal. In his term, nobody has seen Trump falling head over heels for any leader. The kind of remarks Trump made post-meeting is not the world saw coming up. So what shall we assume? Did Trump really got hoodwinked or is he just being pretentious?

If we talk about the deal, one could easily see that Trump did not make any extraordinary attempts to de- nuclearize North Korea. Instead, North Korea made the best use of the opportunity and not only convinced U.S to provide securitization, but also made him stop the military exercises with South Korea. Choson Simbo, North Korea’s propaganda voice, as published in Tokyo has said that one of the essential condition of denuclearization is termination of American strategic commitments which includes provision of nuclear umbrella to Republic of Korea, and probably Japan. This historic- much awaited meeting was more on the sides of North Korea rather than US. Much more was expected from this event but it seems U.S couldn’t make it possible.

Few months back when both the countries were threatening each other and making derogatory remarks, nobody on the globe ever hoped of them coming together so soon. Here, the credit doesn’t go to the White House but it goes to the sawn- off fellow who went beyond his capacity to make the deal possible. One should keep in mind that he is the same fellow who had the guts to challenge world’s superpower few months back. Undermining its capacity will be foolishness right now. The deal has made things more complicated and here we stand predicting the worst end of this alliance.

Amidst failure and success, it is China who will suffer if the deal becomes successful. This alliance is posing a major threat to China in near future. The recent friendly move and the reconciliation between the West and the East have somewhere made China insecure. China being the only ally of the authoritarian Korea was confident about the fact that North Korea will depend on it, no matter what the circumstances are. It was firmed that North Korea will never let U.S step into their area. The continuous open threats left China anticipating that both U.S and North Korea will never come together. But to its dismay, North Korea itself stepped forward to reconcile. Now it is completely unavoidable to prevent U.S intervening into East Asian matters. In this crucial time when China is emerging with a greater pace, U.S intervention will make its pace slower. It can be perceived as a betrayal from Kim’s side as well. But China has no other option rather being quite as any negative reaction on this event may expose its insecurity to the world. Moreover, it is obvious that China has lost its place in Kim’s ally’s list as now it is becoming closer the U.S. As far as South Korea is concerned, Kim has already reciprocated by sending its athletes to Winter Olympics in South Korea in February. This is certain that Kim is now embracing every country and is no longer restricting itself within its own territory.

Where China is left with a dilemma, U.S is still living in an illusion that it made North Korea de-nuclearize. Yes, Kim agreed to de- nuclearize and has already started working on it, but Kim, on the other hand was not asked to stop the production of uranium and plutonium. Trump should not forget that North Korea has already produced nuclear weapons. Just because it has promised to give up all the weapons doesn’t mean that it is incapable of producing it again. Where Trump is patting his own back thinking that he has not removed sanctions till now, he should remember, North Korea never cared about sanctions- neither it did in past nor it will do it in future.

Kim has conspicuously extended hands for reconciliation and Trump’s naïve ignorance has given an opportunity to North Korea to create its positive image in the global politics. This is indeed a credulous move by Trump which may give devastating results in future. Fingers crossed… but it is evident that there is one new power emerging- which can threaten U.S, can make China insecure, reconcile, negotiate and brain wash highly experienced democrats. One cannot deny that Kim has better negotiation skills and more appropriate strategies. As far as North Korea keeps embracing changes, one cannot stop it emerging as a great power. After all, one should remember Kim knows how to dictate and dictators don’t live in a delusion. And that is why they are dictators and not democrats. They don’t run a country, they rule it.