Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke to Circa about the potential consequences of an unsuccessful Trump-Kim summit.
Abandoning diplomacy would be the worst-case outcome of the Singapore Summit, said James McKeon a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
“The biggest concern about a failed summit is that President Trump walks out, or if there is some kind of failure in diplomacy that we’ll be on another track to war,” he explained.
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“Giving a blank check to President Trump to be able to use military force on the Korean Peninsula — which is basically what an AUMF would do — would not strengthen his negotiating hand,” said James McKeon. “It would tell the North Koreans that their biggest fears of a U.S. invasion could actually come to fruition. It would undermine the talks.”
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For Congress to draft and authorize military action would be “counterproductive to diplomacy” and potentially undermine those security guarantees, McKeon warned. Read more
