Prediction on Future of North Korean Negotiations
The big picture:
Negotiations will continue at least through November 2018, more likely through November 2020. Task forces will be formed, and will issue periodic reports of steady but slow progress, first weekly, then bi-weekly, then sporadically. Perhaps once every two or three months Trump will announce the negotiations have broken down, will then intervene directly, meet with Kim-jung and rescue them, and negotiations will resume in the task forces. Ultimately, a final agreement will be announced. It will be claimed to be a successful result to extended negotiations in which both sides have made concessions, some of which will necessarily be non-public. But they will essentially affirm the situation exactly as it is today with modifications at the edges and celebratory rather than fear-inducing language.
In his bi-weekly press conferences, Trump will again announce his achievements:
- [There is a] new era in relations with North Korea;
- [I] have a special relationship with Kim Jong-un
- [Our talk was] a tremendous success
- [Kim and I] have a terrific relationship
- Kim and I] have a very special bond
- Kim and I] have an excellent relationship
- He’s a very talented man. I learned that he loves his country very much.
- [We are making] The deal of the century…
- Working together, we will get [the nuclear impasse] taken care of.
- It’s going to work out very nicely.
- [We have taken} major steps forward in resolving the remaining open questions between the two countries;
- Step by step, and simultaneous actions
- We have the start of an emerging deal.
- Kim has a great feeling for [the North Korean people]. He wants to do right by them
- North Korean Human rights violations do not have any parallel in the contemporary world.[1]
In the end, the United States will announce it has accomplished a major contribution to world peace, enough to justify a Nobel Peace prize, and the end of its involvement in the negotiations, will boast of how they have protected the American people and saved them tons of money, and North and South Korea will negotiate a comprehensive settlement satisfactory to both of them and to China.
In detail:
Within a short time, less than a month a firm agreement will be announced under which North Korea will suspend further development of its transoceanic missile delivery systems and agree to point what it retains only north toward Canada and not at the United States .
The parties will continue negotiating through and after November 2016 and possibly into November 2020. Each side will be given two opportunities to cancel the meetings, send flunkies to negotiate for several months, intervene personally to restorer them. Trump will claim unqualified success because he has persuaded Kim to point is transoceanic range missiles across the pacific to target Canada, rather than the United States.
The Group of 7 will be invited to supervise compliance with the peace treaties, at their own expense. If they refuse, the United States will withdraw from it, and invite the Untied Nations to supervise the peace, at its expense. If they refuse, the United States will withdraw from it, and publish how much money it will save the United States taxpayer by it limiting its international commitments.
In drafting his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump will profusely thank Jared Kushner for his on-going advice, based on his experience in settling conflicts in the near and middle east, and preserving the existence of four nations who without him might be at war with each other: North and Susah Korea, Israel and Palestine, with treaties in which all parties agreed that they will not use nuclear weapons or poison gas in whatever confrontations may still face, thus establishing the status quo as the permanent solution to all the problems of world peace. Trump will also acknowledge the help of the Dalai Lama for his spiritual charity in setting the tone for discussions with South Korea during the negations with North Korea
The economic task force will be very active throughout, inviting investment from the United States pressing for more and more openness of the economy to market and financial interests.[2] It will announce that agreement has been reached to support a United States government underwritten factory by Adidas manufacturing hand-woven sneakers, and another agreement by North Korea to stop all mining of raw materials within its borders and instead convert the the mines into depositories for landfill made of non-recyclable waste shipments from the United States, an excess to be deposited off the north coast of North Korea in deep waters.
The political task force will begin by seeking soften some of Kim’s more blatantly undemocratic ruling practices, but will quickly be told that those are internal affairs for North Korea to decide, foreign intervention is not desired. The task force will slowly limits its attention to supplying textbooks on civil rights law to North Korean educational institutions, and perhaps financing some translations of United States historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights into Korean. It may be told that such actions might backfire, and will slowly drop out of public sight.
Kim will proudly boast that he has talked Trump into building the tallest skinniest hotel on the Pacific coast and will save Korea’s supplies of gas by permitting Trump to heat it with coal, which Trump will import from West Virginia to show how many jobs he has created in the United States through the negotiations.
South Korea will form a joint venture with North Korea to develop infrastructure, namely, roads going north-south between the two countries each country paying for development within its own borders with loans from the Chinese government.
Peter Marcuse June 13, 2018
Brief afterthought: Is it possible Trump actually never saw or ever was concerned about any threat to the United States by North Korea, and just wanted the headline he was able to get June 14 in the New York Times “Trump Sees End to North Korea Nuclear Threat” for bragging rights at home? And that will be the end of his interest in the matter?
[1] All but the last are quotes from formulations Trump has already used. The last is from a 2014 United Nations report.
[2] The interest along these lines is already described in a leading article in the New York Times , “What if North Korea Opens Its Economy, Even a Little”? June 13, 2018, -.p. A10.
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