With Trump upgrading his rhetoric to an alarming degree and thratening outright war, it basically forced both sides to go it alone. He’s gonna tout it as tough guy negotiations it working out* but its more slong the lines the US effectively stepped away from North Korea and outwardly saying they would sacrificing the South (cause who was gonna really suffer casualties in a war, not the US) to keep NK in check.

It makes you wonder even besides the obvious how much of a destabilizing agent the US might be (what would happen if we stepped away from Israel, etc).

*meanwhile with Brexit and the UK going, “We great Britiian bitch, what the fuck you gonna do without us” and being met with a collective shrug and a condesending head tap with the EU kinda shows you the downside to swinging ya dick in negotiations