re: #67 Sir John Barron

re: #59 Belafon

diplomatically outmaneuvered the Trump administration

To be fair, you can drop this phrase just about anywhere and it would be valid.

The WaPo comments on Drezner’s Korean piece were pretty illuminating: many simply ignored Dan’s main point in favor of Pavlovian castigation of “the liberal media” for what they see [i.e. persist in misinterpreting] as “cheerleading” for the DPRK regime. By which they seem to mean ANY reportage of any kind on North Korea that doesn’t include (or obsess on) virulent denunciation of the whole country and its ruling regime. I wonder if these wingnuts actually DO believe that “libruls” either don’t know the nature of the NK state, or think it’s somehow benign/praiseworthy (Sadly, the answer is probably “yes)?