Article snippet: The historic meeting between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea is forcing critics of MORE to acknowledge that his much-derided strategy might be bearing fruit. Trump’s approach to North Korea, including his famous derision of its leader Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man” and his talk about the size of his nuclear button, elicited a combination of fear and mockery from foreign policy experts and other elite voices. So too did his threat during a United Nations speech last September to “totally destroy” North Korea. But the positive mood music from the dramatic meeting between Kim and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in, as well as the ongoing plans for a Trump-Kim summit, are winning praise from unexpected quarters. Kristof did qualify his argument, however, by suggesting that Trump’s escalation had been primarily important not because it had intimidated Kim but because it had startled Moon into making overtures to the North Koreans. Voices from different ideological perspectives made similar points. Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told The Hill that it seemed to him as if both North Korea and South Korea had “become very concerned about the possibility of conflict.” Cheng said that, when it comes to threats of military action, “Trump has more credibility.” With previous American presidents of either party, he suggested, “very clearly the North Koreans did not take that as being a credible threat.” O... Link to the full article to read more