Hayden: ‘We’re the Ones Disturbing the Equilibrium in Northeast Asia’

EXCERPT:

HAYDEN: "What I say is I see the strategy, Chris. And I do see that we’re the ones disturbing the equilibrium in northeast Asia and I see why. Because what was happening there before was an arc that went to a very unhappy place, a very powerfully nuclear armed North Korea. I get the destabilizing part, but one wants to do it with precision. What I would say to those folks, Chris, is what does Kim Jong-un think — no, let me make it simpler. What do you think what is President Trump’s bottom line when it comes to a resolution, because we’ve got to get there sooner or later, of the North Korean question? Mattis and Tillerson are over here talking really tough, 'If you use this stuff...' From time to time, the President is talking really tough, 'If you have this stuff...' Those are two completely different propositions. What does Kim Jong-un think and how does that affect his thinking? It’s nice to talk tough, but you create the circumstances where you have a higher probability that you blunder into a conflict."