Donald Trump enjoys his most successful week since he opened the doors of the Oval Office, just over fifteen months ago. And economics has not been their safe-conduct. His criticized way of doing in foreign policy is bearing unsuspected fruits a few months ago.
The striking visit of French President Macron, which left the taste of a heterodox president but away from the image of global loose verse with which it premiered, was followed today by the great day Trump expected.
The Korean pax,expressed through images with gestures of fraternity between the two presidents who traveled around the world, constitutes an accolade to the controversial tenant of the White House and which has been called "Twitter diplomacy".
A tool that was used again to remind the world of its paternity of the historical moment.
"The Korean War is coming to an end!" Proclaimed Trump minutes after the Korean rulers shake hands on Parallel 38. Before adding that "the United States and all its people should be proud of everything that is happening in Korea ». It was the way to get rid of a president who has backed the historic process from the beginning.
A more tacit self-recognition than at other times, perhaps because he was aware that the praises would come. So it was. Trump reaped the hours later unsuspected loas.
The president of Eurasia Group and one of the most renowned experts in foreign policy, Ian Bremmer, spoke on Twitter: "I have been critical so far with Trump's foreign policy: TPP (TransPacific Trade Agreement), Paris (Agreement for the Climate Change) ... Too many and unnecessary missteps. But the historic reunion of the two Koreas today would not have happened without the priority and pressure of the president of the United States. Trump deserves all the credit. "
Effective strategy
The South Korean Foreign Minister, Kang Kyung-wha , soon publicly acknowledged Trump's decisive role in facilitating the rapprochement between the two countries, based on the achievement of having attracted Kim Jong-un to the negotiating table : «Clearly, all the recognition is for President Trump. He has committed to us from day one. "
The approval of the foreign policy of the anti-establishment leader follows the long period of messages on Twitter since he decided to bet on a peaceful solution to the eternal Korean conflict. Including a first stage in which the combination of provocations of the communist regime, through the launching of ballistic missiles and nuclear tests, and the harsh response of the US president, with direct threats to Kim Jong-un, caused fear for an unstoppable escalation of the conflict .
Finally, the pressure of Trump, accompanied by the approval of economic sanctions against Pyongyang, promoted by the United States in the Security Council of the UN, seems to have been effective. A compatible conviction of the reality that there is much work to be done to consolidate a definitive denuclearization agreement.
The former deputy director of the CIA Michael Morell was instructed today to send a warning in that regard: "The interview between Trump and Kim is going to be much more complicated . I expect a long process of negotiations in which the United States will demand full denuclearize and North Korea will offer only a partial denuclearization. It will not be easy".
Despite the fact that the historic road to Korean peace has only just begun, the recognition of Trump's merit gave way today to the first voices demanding the Nobel Peace Prize for the US president , along with his counterparts, the Chinese Xi Jinping, and the two Koreans, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in.
Among them, that of the expert Bremmer. The idea was also pointed out by Lindsay Graham, one of the Republican senators most critical of the US president.