Nixon had told Henry Kissinger to warn the North Vietnamese that he was crazy and might use nuclear weapons if they didn’t end the war. The ploy failed, possibly because the North Vietnamese didn’t believe Nixon was mad in quite that way. Did Kim fear that Trump might really be a madman? President Moon certainly feared he might be. American officials put out the word—this time without pretending—that Trump was erratic, unpredictable, different from previous presidents, though all this was clear without these messages. This was what led Moon to accept Kim’s overtures at once, to schedule a
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