August 2017:

Rex Tillerson:

“We’re trying to convey to the North Koreans, we are not your enemy. We would like to sit and have a dialogue with them about the future that will give them the security they seek and the future economic prosperity for North Korea.”

Donald Trump:

“The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!”

June 2018:

When President Obama reached his agreement with Iran to stall its getting nuclear weapons, Senator Lindsey Graham criticized him for signing off on the nuclear agreement with Iran, calling him the “Neville Chamberlain of our time” because Obama believed that “over the next 15 years, Iran is going to change their behavior.”

But according to Lindsey,

“this deal doesn’t require them to do anything to change their behavior. Look at the last 1,000 years and you’ll get a good idea of what they’re going to do in the next 15 years. He’s dangerously naïve; he called [the Islamic State] the JV team. He drew a line against Assad, Assad crossed it, nothing happened. I think his foreign policy is in shambles and this deal is just a natural continuation of a man who doesn’t understand the Mideast.”

Obama had explained his action this way:

 “There really are only two alternatives here. Either the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatically through a negotiation or it’s resolved through force, through war. Those are — those are the options.”

In the multi-lateral agreement, Iran was giving up 68% of its nuclear centrifuges for at least a decade; was agreeing to not enrich uranium beyond 3.67% purity for 15 years so they could still have enough to produce electricity but not  nuclear weapons; was cutting its stockpile of low-enriched uranium; was converting its once-secret enrichment plant at Fordo to a research center;  and was redesigning the heavy water reactor at Arak so it would no longer be capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.

As part of the agreement, the United States and the other co-signers demanded regular and intrusive access for international inspectors of Iran’s  nuclear facilities and their supply chains, while crippling sanctions would remain in place and be lifted gradually and only when the U.S. and others were satisfied that the agreement was being followed.

When he was a candidate, Trump announced,

 “My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran”  because it “will go down as one of the dumbest [and] most dangerous misjudgments ever entered into in [the] history of our country.”

His opposition was not necessarily based on facts as he kept insisting that we gave Iran billions of dollars that came from the American taxpayers when in reality it was Iran’s money seized back when the U.S, Embassy was taken in the Iran Revolution in 1979.

He insisted,

“It’s no secret, I think it was one of the most incompetently drawn deals we’ve ever seen. $150 billion given, we got nothing. They got past the nuclear weapons very quickly.

“Think of this, $1.7 billion in cash. This is cash out of your pocket. I do know how many airplane loads that must be? For they have $1 million? This is $1.7 billion. Who would be authorized to do it and who are the people to deliver it? You may never see them again. Right? This is the worst deal. We got nothing.”

His opposition to the deal had nothing to do with the policy.

Although he had condemned it in broad terms, he had never given any details to show that he knew what the policy was, what it does, what it includes.

While saying such things as:

“The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

“The fact is this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made. It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will.”

“At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program. Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie”,

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Iran has yet to get nuclear weapons.

But now after his summit with Kim Jong Un, the leader of a country that has nuclear weapons, Trump has announced his agreement with North Korea.

The official statement on the Singapore Summit said,

“President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula,

President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”

Suspension of war exercises, that Trump calls “war games”, and a promise to get U.S. troops out of Korea were based on the promise that North Korea would denuclearize, but without any timetable, or arrangement for verification by inspection.

His rejection of the Iran deal becomes more questionable as the agreement with North Korea is open ended and lacking in specifics.

There was no definition of what North Korea considers “denuclearization” or any description of how its cooperation would be monitored especially since the two countries have no formal diplomatic relations. It also was not clear about any potential withdrawal of the stiff sanctions the U.S. has imposed on North Korea.

Kim wanted to buy time while keeping his weapons, and the easing of sanctions. He got those.

Trump wanted something concrete on denuclearization, but got a promise.

Although nothing in the agreement says the reductions promised would be verifiable, the man who condemned the Iran Deal said,

 “Well, that’s going to be achieved by having a lot of people there and as we develop a certain trust, and we think we have done that.”

He showed great unverified faith in Kim by stating,

“Chairman Kim has told me that North Korea has already destroyed a major missile engine testing site. We agreed to that after the agreement was signed — that’s a big thing.”

If it really happened.

North Korea has reneged on agreements in the past, but Trump claims he is the deal maker so,

“I know when somebody wants to deal, and I know when somebody doesn’t. I just feel, very strongly — my instinct, my ability or talent — they want to make a deal. And making a deal is a great thing for the world.”

But was the deal?

No details.

But Kim did get that concession to reduce the U.S involvement in South Korea.

And maybe Trump gets some real estate deals.