Why Trump’s cancellation of the North Korea summit may undermine the US-South Korea alliance | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Why Trump’s cancellation of the North Korea summit may undermine the US-South Korea alliance | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Exploiting divides between the United States and South Korea on North Korea policy is standard operating procedure for Pyongyang. The cancellation of the Trump-Kim summit helps to further that goal. But the most serious fault lines for the US-Korea alliance lie within the alliance itself. Donald Trump’s treatment of South Korea is a throwback to a time when South Korea was