times? is this the right time for national security adviser mcmaster, reportedly on the way out, to be heading the delegation? you can haven t the secretary of defense. so really, it is up to president trump to start it. but remember the key thing. the point that ti agree with th white house, that i hope that they stick to it. this is not a negotiation. a negotiation requires endless rounds of preparation and detail. this is a meeting. and if a meeting can start to form the beginnings o s of a relationship, and i m not saying friendship, if a meeting can somewhat reduce the tensions, and if a meeting can end up with an agreement on a process for negotiations, it is then worth the risk. but sue mi terry, the north has wanted this meeting for a long time, because this is a very repressive regime and this provides incredible legitimacy to the regime. absolutely. north koreans have sought a meeting with a u.s. leader for many years. i mean, even president bush was invited, or they want
the republican party will be history. and given his long demonstrated preferences in this regard, who knows, trump would probably want to rename the party, the trump party. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. next on gps, president obama s former top military adviser, martin dempsey, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, on what he would advise the current president to do on military matters, starting with north korea.
to do it. you take off your uniform. you really are not called general mattis anymore. you re secretary mattis. you are now serving as a civilian leader in a democratic system, and they contrasted that with general kelly, who has been very political in his support for donald trump, made political statements of his own, and of course, admiral mullen said in his view, and admiral mullen s view, politicized even the death of his own son saying president obama didn t call me when my son got killed. is that a distinction worth bearing in mind, between mattis and kelly? well, the distinction i think is not between mattis and kelly but between the role of the secretary of defense and the role of the white house chief of staff. the secretary of defense has to deliver national security policy, has to go and argue for a budget. by the way, and all of them have to go and support the president s budget, presuming they ve negotiated it to a satisfactory level, but the chief of staff job is inhere
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country. but i have other concerns. it s that trump might not see this as just a beginning of the negotiation. what if he concludes? what if he agrees to something like, you know, north koreans say, if their regime security is guaranteed that they might give up nuclear weapons, but what does that mean? that means they want to break up the u.s./south korean alliance and kick off the forces of the korean peninsula. so what if he decides, hey, this might work? or, at the other end, i think victor cha was absolutely right when he said, you know, you have a premature negotiation. what it if falls through? there s no recourse after that. you slr malready have met with jong-un. now we have no recourse except to take kinetic action on north korea. ian bremmer, you said to me, you knew this was going to happen in the sense that kim jong trump was going to want to meet with kim jong-un, why? because no one else has done it? kim jong-un has not met with a