Imagine yourself as Kim Jong-Il: bon vivant, cineaste, tyrant.
Fifteen years ago your ailing father provoked an international crisis by expelling U.N. nuclear inspectors. He then resolved it by inviting a notoriously pliant former U.S. president to Pyongyang to patch things up. The deal solved nothing as far as the rest of the world was concerned. But it allowed your father to bequeath his kingdom to you intact and gain time to develop weapons with which to blackmail the world again.
Now you’re the one who’s ailing. So why not run the exact same play all over again, merely substituting one legacy-seeking American president with another?
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