THE EFFICACY OF QUID PRO QUO
(something given or received for something else
also : a deal arranging a quid pro quo)

In international relations, multilateralism can be the key that unlocks a diplomatic solution that cannot otherwise be solved thru mere bilateralism.

2/What does the U.S. want from North Korea?

A) To permanently freeze/cap it’s nuclear and ICBM programs
B) To allow USFK to remain in South Korea as a regional defense force under the Mutual Defense Treaty
C) To practice non-proliferation & arms control

3/What does the DPRK want from the U.S.?

D) To be accepted as a nuclear state
E) USFK terminates joint military exercises targeting DPRK
F) Sanctions are lifted
G) The peace treaty is signed to end 70 years of wartime and inaugurate peacetime on the Korean peninsula

4/Sounds like a fair trade to me: North Korea gives A, B & C to the U.S. in exchange for the U.S. giving D, E, F & G to the DPRK. Each side gets what it wants from the other, and the result? The Korean war is OVER and peacetime is begins, which means North and South Koreans will

5/enjoy peace, reconciliation and economic cooperation thru an array of inter-Korean projects that will immediately commence. So why hasn't this simple quid pro quo been been contemplated by Washington? Answer: its two dimensional thinking and knee-jerk negative framing of DPRK

6/has blocked it from perceiving reality thru a purely objective lens. Yet if Washington can exit the matrix of its decades-long antiquated Cold War “hostile policy” towards North Korea and take the red pill of objectivity, there is a way to win peace on the Korean peninsula by

7/normalizing a limited nuclear DPRK that keeps its extant nuclear deterrence w/out ever honing an end-stage delivery system that’d directly threaten U.S. homeland and change the U.S. calculus. Yet left to its own devices Washington has a penchant for digging itself deeper into

8/the bilateral rut of its own making. We live on a planet where multilateralism is key to extricating ourselves from the worst conundrums of our/humanity's own making. It takes teamwork to solve global problems, so ending the Korean war to establish peace on the Korean peninsula

9/requires our best efforts b/c failure is not an option. If the U.S.'s mindset is like Col. Miles Quaritch (of Avatar): "Everyone on this base, every one of you, is fighting for survival, and that's a fact…Our only security lies in preemptive attack. We will fight terror with

10/"terror", it'll take multilateralism, namely Russia and China raising their voices at the UNSC, to repudiate the ineffectiveness & recklessness of the U.S. continuing Maximum Pressure 2.0 and demanding the surrender of DPRK's nuclear deterrence and
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/quotes/

11/offer an alternative, a bold solution that can turn the page of history. And the reason I believe they should do this is b/c Trump is the X factor in this:

The pen indeed is mightier than the sword.
https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1264586259214688256?s=20

@KremlinRussia_E
@SpokespersonCHN

12/The aforementioned quid pro quo is a revamping of the 'double freeze' Russia and China had previously pushed for before the Singapore summit, yet tweaked to the current situation. Getting Kim Jong Un to agree to cap/freeze his nuclear & ICBM programs https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1264775734066733057?s=20

13/that'll ensure DPRK never perfects a delivery system that would directly threaten the U.S. homeland is the sweet spot of the deal. It allows the U.S. to accept the DPRK as a nuclear state b/c it won't have to change its calculus. And the benefits of this deal to Kim Jong Un

14/would be astronomical. Achieving peacetime and normalized relations w/ the U.S. & South Korea would liberate DPRK's socialist economy, bring new freedoms to North Koreans and usher in a new beginning of DPRK-ROK inter-Korean economic projects that'll integrate their economies.

15/The children of the Millennial grandson of Kim Il-sung won't be carrying the nuclear burden on their backs. Instead they might be integral in shaping the future of the Korean people's destiny. Unify? Stay separate? Koryo Union? That matter is for them to decide.

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