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CNN’s Zakaria: ‘Great Danger’ Is Trump Is ‘So Eager for a Deal’ with N. Korea He Will Settle for Half a Loaf

‘With Donald Trump, anything is possible’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ZAKARIA: "Well, with Donald Trump, anything is possible. But, again, one would hope that the pattern this would take would be you carefully try to work out some of the issues Jim clapper was talking about, at the level of deputies and under-secretaries of state and negotiators and that the semiity becomes the reward. It becomes the capstone, not the stepping-stone for a process. The place they met is the place where the armistus for the Korean war was negotiated and that took almost three years, almost as long as the war itself. It took one year — more than one year to negotiate, just the prisoners of war exchange. And during that entire process, the North Koreans then, as they are now, very tough, very shrewd negotiators. So I think that there is a danger here that the photo on and the feel-good atmosphere kind of overshadow the fact these are very tough negotiators, they have very different view of the world and view of their security than the United States does, I would suspect a better strategy would be to get China involved, to get Russia involved, to put collective pressure, but also collective security guarantees to the North Koreans. But Donald Trump really wanted to wing this along and come across as the guy who single-handedly swooped down and manage to save the world from a crisis that he largely pumped up earlier in his administration. So we’re not going to get that. We’ll get this kind of very — there will be a circus-like mats here. And I think Jim clapper is right, better than missile tests and build-ups but there is going to have to be hard work and long, hard negotiations if this actually results in the denuclearization of North Korea. The great dangerous, Brianna, that Donald Trump is eager for a leader that will settle for half a loaf to leave North Korea with nuclear weapons."

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