Who's sweating what exactly?
Everyone wants a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, everyone.
Should Trumps initiative succeed, he absolutely deserves credit, along with what is probably far more capable people in the state department and other departments that will actually make any potential settlement work.
But I still do stand by my pessimism, I sincerely doubt that Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump will ever set foot in the same country, let alone the same city, let alone the same building, let alone the same room, let alone the same table.
And Trump is no diplomat... DPRK is very prickly and very touchy and if Trump can't hold his own and loses his ****, they will humiliate him and send him home empty handed.
Also this is simply not how DPRK plays, I still think something is up.
I do not see any reason why DPRK would voluntarily give up their nuclear weapons, unless Kim Jong Un really is that person to lead DPRK out of the darkness.
So while I maintain my pessimism, here's my alternate scenario of hope, because this meeting of Pompeo is a pretty positive sign so here goes:
Kim Jong Un is not nearly the dastardly villain the Western Media portrays him as, he's actually quite astute, he has spent the last 7 years building up his position, dealing with his political rivals which probably included the old guard and has finally cemented his position as unquestionable ruler of North Korea, perhaps finally giving him the latitude he needs in order to end this stand off with the west because he knows his position in the very long term is untenable and change his country into a more perhaps, Chinese model.
My only hope if this is the case, is that DPRK can open up to the world and curtail its rampant human rights abuses to much lower levels, I mean China isn't great for that but its miles better than DPRK, which is all the altruist in me can hope for.
So yeah, let's see what happens.
