Meeting in Hanoi failed | Donald Trump, Kim Jon …

In 1953, Eisenhower became president of the United States. with the promise of resolving the Korean War, bogged down in two years of futile negotiations as the bombardment of hills became a human anthill, almost sheltered from Kim Il Sung's tunnels. North America sent a secret message – those where politicians are telling the truth – warning North Koreans that, if they did not resume dialogue, they would use their nuclear arsenal.

Kim Il Sung understood this message and returned to the negotiating table to sign the ceasefire without a peace treaty that lasts until today, leaving both countries technically at war. But as a good strategist, he began to work consciously so that the American threat remains latent. Three generations of the Kim Dynasty have focused their efforts on achieving a goal that would guarantee them an effective shield: the atomic bomb, the best way to avoid any war between two enemies who, if they destroyed the other, self-destruct automatically.

The first Kim was convinced that the threat was serious, while the last Kim seems to have convinced Trump that he had achieved his nuclear goal. And a historic president from the right, Park Park, has collapsed in South Korea, coaching the center-left player, Moon, who, faced with escalating between Kim and Trump, said that he's in trouble. it would be better if both Koreas organize a World Cup. The US president saw it as an opportunity: donning the costume of a statesman and dreaming of a Nobel Peace Prize.

The United States dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on the Korean peninsula, killing every city in North Korea, killing 2 million people. That's why, when Trump promised "fury and fire," in North Korea, they believed it. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the population began to suffer from hunger – in a context of trade blockade – and all went on in this interventionist line that reinforced the anti-American sentiment in the population, which Kim III did it in Switzerland and became fanatical about the NBA. – has always allowed him to appeal to nationalism.

The summit was held at the Francophile Metropole Hotel, where Graham Greene wrote his novel The Pbadionate American – imagined during the Vietnam War – a sentence sums up the atmosphere at the beginning of this meeting: "The wounds were frozen to a point of placidity ". Trump acted as host to another: he directed the situation safely and with the unusual care of pleasing a chubby and timid Mao-dressed president, who looked astonished, but who had managed to make himself respected.

At one meeting of the meeting, a reporter asked Kim if he thought about addressing the human rights issue, but an opportunist, Trump, interrupted: "We will talk about all the questions". The American seemed to test the other by respecting the limits: a journalist questioned Kim about a possible US office. in Pyongyang, Kim then suggested to Trump to remove the media from the room. But the American doubled the bet saying it was a good question. Kim said it would be a welcome thing but that it was better to discuss it in private. In private, the negotiations are not moving forward: in the middle of the afternoon, the summit program is canceled and each president leaves for his hotel. Trump gave a conference highlighting for the tenth time that North Korea had great potential – he wants to seduce Kim with wealth – but this time they have not decided on an agreement: "that will take some time". He conceded that the problem was the lifting of sanctions: "I would like to do it, rather than quickly."

Trump tried to hide the failure of the summit, which went no further than the previous one in Singapore, which was a statement of good intentions. "There is a vacuum," he says without much detail. And apparently it's big. There are four approaches: to restore diplomatic relations, to sign a peace treaty, to proceed to denuclearization – north and south? – and repatriate the dead American soldiers. Denuclearizing the south of the peninsula would be as easy as the United States. Send your bombs home, something symbolic, because you can throw them away. Instead, the whole process in the north would take years, including biological weapons, subjecting North Korea to a humiliating permanent inspection.

If the two presidents met in Singapore and Vietnam, it's because, just as Kim I took the threat of Eisenhower seriously, Trump believed in Kim III's message when he started its nuclear tests. North America said that with his North Korean counterpart, "we fell in love". But when they talk to each other, mistrust seems to prevail. The atomic bomb is a life insurance for Kim and he will not give it up until he is certain he will not be deceived. His diet, his life and the continuation of a lineage with a communist symbology that was the cornerstone of a proper geopolitical balance in an area where China did not want to have American troops in its backyard – result of reunification – are at stake; The United States, Russia and the Chinese feared a rearmament of Japan – which claimed its right – North Korea needed a credible external enemy to justify the lack of freedom, and South Korea, poor in extra-capitalist capital in the field of social rights, was useful. a red ghost that justifies all sorts of abuses of work in favor of industrial enterprises.

All this began to change when the skill of strategist Kim – mega-global intimidation object – began to launch missiles into the sea. But on paper, so far, everything is pretty much the one left by Eisenhower and Kim I in 1953. Korea, this coin with opposing faces frozen during the cold war, continues to turn in the air without falling.

* Co-author, with Daniel Wizenberg, of Korea, two extreme faces of the same nation.