CNN’s Vinograd on North Korea: ‘Kim Is Trying to Coerce President Trump to Lift Sanctions’

‘What we have seen is coercion Kim-style’

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VINOGRAD: “Now, I don’t support fire and fury, but what we have seen is coercion Kim-style. Kim is trying to coerce President Trump to lift sanctions. He’s been slowly pushing the envelope in doing more provocative tests over a series of time. Short-range tests, potentially preparing for a satellite launch, and really seeing what he can get away with President Trump. So while Kim is testing these weapons, he is also testing the President’s resolve. And President Trump has really not responded definitively to these provocations by Kim, so it certainly looks like President Trump is bluffing. We all know that North Korea is a foreign policy quote/unquote success that President Trump points to on the campaign trail and we’re going into an election year, of course.”

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