All any side has done for 60 years is threaten the other with annihilation. The north threatens the south and us, we threaten the north. Now the north can actually hit our cities with nukes and it's not a fair trade for even one of our cities against that backwards nation. Poor bastards. It would be easy to just say we will live in MAD like before and things will be fine. Only problem is is that North Korea may be the only nation on the planet that isn't 100% gamed as a rational actor, which makes it hard for us to live with them being able to threaten us.
Something had to be done quickly and orange Man stepped to the plate to make a first move. It's at least something
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for a Nobel Prize.
We might be luckily experiencing one rare benefit of an outlandish buffoon being in charge- that another less powerful outlandish buffoon looked up to him and was inspired by it. Similar to two bullies who threaten each other repeatedly but end up not fighting, but instead being friends.
I'm not convinced that is true, but it would have to be true according to some arguments. That's the best I can do there, and it's so ridiculous a premise in the shadow of potential nuclear war that it's almost a strawman.
So it's really just back to the consequentialist argument, but there's no evidence that Kim was moved toward peace by the exchange of violence rhetoric than by, say, the Olympics. Or that he was more inspired by the Twitter war than by, say, his achievement of nuclear deterrence.
It could just as easily be the case that peace could have been more easily achieved without the mutual threats of annihilation and the childish asses-at-the-windows show we were all subjected to for months.
Yet there is no uncertainty whatsoever that the overtures, disposition, and hospitality of the Moon regime is directly responsible both in its consequences
and by its methods for the peace that is unfolding between North and South Korea, in which the United States is playing a secondary role.
In short, Fuck Trump, Fuck Kim, give the Prize to Moon.