Should the US Pursue a Free Trade Agreement with North Korea to End Nuclear Standoff?

I will give economist Mr. Harry Broadman the author of the below article credit for being creative.  However, for his idea to work the US would have to be willing to accept goods made by near slave labor and the enrichment of a regime that will continue military preparations to conquer South Korea:

Harry Broadman

At the risk of being cast as a dreamer, for the sake of argument I’ll posit an objective that has concrete, recognizable features for which in the long run one might dare to aim: a U.S.-North-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (USNSK-FTA).  Since the current U.S. administration has called the existing U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS-FTA) a ‘bad deal’ and has already signaled to Seoul that Washington will re-negotiate the agreement, maybe President Trump should completely catch Kim Jong-un off-guard and invite him to the negotiating FTA table?

This will sound very far-fetched to most. But compared to the current dangerous stalemate with the threatened use of nuclear weapons, maybe it’s not so nutty.  [Forbes]

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