August 30, 2020
From: U.S. Ambassador, Tokyo
To: Secretary of State Pompeo
Mr. Secretary,
I am writing this to you, after the fact obviously, to review the last several months of operations in the war none of us foresaw just two years ago.
Background and Discussion: As you recall, we were in some disarray after the departure of your predecessor, Mr. Tillerson, and you asked all of us for our own take on the situation in Korea, especially with the appointment of Mr. Bolton coinciding as it did with your own appointment and the President’s initiation to meet with Mr. Kim.
As we all know, Kim met with President-Chairman Xi in March of that year and there was much speculation as to what passed between them. Reality only became clear, however after the President’s earth-shaking meeting with Kim and President Moon of S. Korea in Seoul. This was followed, not long after, by the Pyongyang Protocol in August, wherein all three leaders announced the demilitarization of the peninsula with the withdrawal of all US forces and the institution of a UN-led mission with a regime of inspections to ensure the dismantling of Kim’s nuclear weapons programs.
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WNU Editor: Talk about wild specualtion. Bottom line .... Russia will not engage in a massive war over North Korea.
