The Daily 202: Hawks worry about the lack of American resolve to confront North Korea
By James Hohmann October 17 at 8:31 AM
PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric toward North Korea is making it harder to marshal domestic support for potential United States intervention.
This is a widespread concern among fellows at the Hoover Institution, a right-leaning think tank on the campus of Stanford University. Trump has tweeted that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is “wasting his time” by trying to negotiate with Pyongyang, suggesting that only military force can curb Kim Jong Un.
Kori Schake, a defense policy expert at Hoover who held important jobs during both Bush administrations at the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom and National Security Council, thinks it is very important to open a direct dialogue with the regime in Pyongyang.
“Negotiations are useful intelligence tools. I have enormous confidence in American intelligence agencies to find out interesting stuff in negotiations,” she said. “But the main reason I favor negotiations is that we may actually have to go to war on the Korean Peninsula. If we do, my mom is not going to be able to get to a place of supporting that unless she thinks her government has done everything possible to avert it. I don’t see how any American administration ever gets to war without negotiations because of the importance of carrying the American public along — most especially if it is a war of choice.”
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