KIM JONG UN MISSTEPPED: WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN VIETNAM.

ICHEOKU says the leader of North Korea missed his moment in the sun when he failed to reach a deal with President Donald John Trump of America. Such a golden opportunity might not come his way again, at least not in the distant future baring a quick move to plead his case again and very soon. It is not every time that an American president finds time to travel to such a great distance, only to come back dejected and without something tangible to show for his time and effort. 

Kim Jong Un made a mortal mistake by, in preference, holding unto a nuclear weaponry which he will never ever get to use or use at a grave detriment to both himself and his people of North Korea. A smart Kim would have said to Trump to please let him save face by agreeing to some United Nations nuclear inspections, as well as giving up some nuclear plants in return to some shifting of grounds by America. But unfortunately, he traveled on a train for 50 hours in vain, only to now return back to Pyongyang and possibly back in the cold of isolation and resumed war maneuvers in the Korean peninsular. 

But one thing is however certain, he can never get any better American president to deal with and negotiate better terms with, other than President Donald John Trump, who was ready and willing to both cajole, cuddle and work with him as he honorably surrenders his nuclear weaponry. No other American president, especially not a democrat, will sincerely seek a final resolution of the stalemate in the Korean peninsular. ICHEOKU had wished and prayed for a better outcome, but humans are who they are and possibly his ego got in the way and he was not as forthcoming as President Trump had expected, resulting in the walking away from the Hanoi Vietnam summit. 

It is painful and it is unfortunate that Kim Jong Un failed the president of the United States of America and he will be held accountable for his obstinacy. An American president is simply too powerful to be messed with and causing him such a great loss of face by traveling to Vietnam for a deal and not delivering is a costly and very expensive rudeness. Kim Jong Un only succeeded in cementing the stereotyping of North Korean leaders that they cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith and are always up to no good. How dare this fella do what he did and did not even appreciate all the effusive outpouring of love by President Donald John Trump, who was thinking that he has finally cracked the code of respect needed to solve the Korean peninsular problem for good. 

What need does Kim Jong Un still have of nuclear weaponry, when the next step would have been formally ending the Korean War by signing off on the armistice, as steps are taken towards final reunification of the two Korea. Why exactly does he need a weapon, which he will never use, come in the way of transforming North Korea into a functioning modern economic power house, just like its sister South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other surrounding Northeast and Southeast Asian countries. Why does he need to be isolated again and make himself hated again, after the recent thawing of the frosty relationship with the West? 

ICHEOKU says the lack of a deal in Vietnam was ill advised and not well taught through and at the end of the day, North Korea loses. It has no aces nor bargaining chips against America, having released American prisoners and some of America's Korean War dead. At worse, he will resume his firing of missiles over Japan and into the Korea sea; as well as testing his nuclear weapons. But ICHEOKU strongly believes that this time around that he will not just get away with it, not any more; and might receive a powerful beat down which he will regret, but which he would then deserve and have truly earned. At least, the whole world would have seen that America made every effort to avoid such a bloody nose smack-down, but that Kim Jong Un begged for it. 

Until then, one or two things will happen, either he reaches back to President Donald John Trump very soon or resumes his rocket firings, with its attendant grave consequences. Imagine the rock-star status which he would have attained had he made the deal and simultaneously use it to transform his youthful self into a beloved world leader, instead of the bloody despotic thug which he is. Anyway, posterity will not judge him kindly nor rightly, if his obstinacy forces North Korea back into the cold and into a more heightened pariah status or at worst, into real hostilities between American led allies and his army. ICHEOKU is staying tuned, to watch developments arising out of the botched opportunity to make a deal, the Vietnam impasse.