North Korea is making nuclear fuel and building weapons as actively as ever, the publicly available evidence suggests. But he now appears to be borrowing a page from Israel, Pakistan and India: He is keeping quiet about it, conducting no public nuclear demonstrations and creating no crises, allowing Mr. Trump to portray a denuclearization effort as on track.
But even some of the president’s top national security officials privately concede that Mr. Trump’s declaration in June that “there is no longer a nuclear threat” from North Korea was a huge error, because it was taken as a signal by China and Russia that the crisis was over and that they could resume trading with the country.
こんな馬鹿な大統領が、日本の安全保障の鍵を握っていいわけがない。
これほど馬鹿か、あるいは、もっと馬鹿な大統領がアメリカに今後出現しない、とも限らない。
日本に、拒否的抑止のみならず、懲罰的抑止が必要になってくる所以である。
