The Room Where It Happened

Get the Contextual & Sequential Points

John Bolton, former national security advisor in the White House, worked for the George W. Bush administration as a leading hawkish perspective in the United States' political circles, and worked with President Donald Trump at current administration. He emphasized the necessity of the Vietnam War and reiterated that the North Korean nuclear crisis should be overcome by war. However, he did not serve as a soldier despite being drafted into the Vietnam War, and he is in the United States, so of course he wants war on the Korean Peninsula. In other words, it should be known that listening to and abusing these people more than necessary is already out of patriotism, and that it is nothing more than an act of finding fault with a country. Naturally, it is an extremely American perspective.

One important point Trump made at the end of June underscored the potential of a division growing between the US and Moon Jae-in, which increasingly concerned us. Having watched Moon in action, Trump came to understand that Moon had a different agenda from ours, as any government priorties its national interest.

Above all, publishing such a book is quite rude to current working-level officials and is a stern diplomatic discourtesy to the negotiating parties. On the contrary, it appears that President Trump only published because he was upset that he was sacked, and it is understood that the only person who did not even serve in the military is shamelessly trying to exaggerate his achievements beyond necessity. Nevertheless, certain country has criticized the current administration more than necessary through the books as if they were impatient to quote the book, and indiscriminately expanded and reproduced groundless news without even considering diplomatic perspectives and interests at the time. Of course, there was no interpretation of phenomena and relationships.

Who in the book's claims and President Moon Jae-in, how much and how we've tried, South Korea's president in that situation is described that he have tried to voice for Korea’s interests in the conditions. Also, Trump to persuade after the call or meeting of the president Moon, and the writer felt very unhappy about the statements are repeatedly described. Additionally, the sequential context, which also explains that Chung Eui-yong, former chief of the presidential National Security Office in the Blue House, played a significant role, clearly shows that Korea - to the extent that it is unpleasant from the U.S. point of view - did its best for the national interest in the situation.

Moon pushed hard for the Trump-Kim meeting to be at Panmunjom, followed immediately by a trilateral with both Koreas and the US.

On Tuesday, June 5, Pompeo and I had a lunch with Trump, one important topic of which was Moon's continuing desire to be present in Singapore.

Moon, however, was still worried about from rather than substance, but what was really upper most for him was stressing he was available to join Kim and Trump.

Moon complimented Trump's leadership. In trun, Trump pressed him to tell South Korea's media how much Trump was responsible for all this.

I spoke later with Pompeo, then traveling in the Middle East who listened to the Abe and Moon calls from these. The Moon call especially had been "a near-death experience," I said, and Pompeo responded, "Having cardiac arrest in Saudi Aribia."

However, the book explains that it is being misused most senselessly in Korea, and that President Moon and the South Korean government have engaged in very kneel diplomacy based on sentences that are not contextual. Even if that is the case, those who criticize the leader of a relatively small country should know that it is the most necessary virtue for the leader of a relatively weak country to bow to the strong to solve the foreign affairs challenges. In other words, it is clear how narrow-minded perspective the interpreters have and, at the same time, how much they ignore their current president.

Abe repeated all the key points he had made at Mar-a-Lago, in contrast with Moon's over-optimistic perspective.

Tokyo's view of the looming Trump-Kim meeting was 180 degree from South Korea's, in short, petty much like my own. Yachi said they believed the North's determination to get nuclear weapons was fixed, and that we were nearing the last chance for a peaceful solution.

This should give us a very clear picture of who wanted to harden relations on the Korean Peninsula and who consistently made claims against Korea's interests.