In a previous article, I walked through what the United States might offer North Korea in their upcoming summit.

The premise was that the U.S. would try to walk a narrow and difficult path between keeping pressure on Pyongyang, while simultaneously making concessions that would signal honest intent.

I suggested that relaxing restraints on South Korea’s freedom of maneuver was a plausible way of doing this, given the close coordination now taking place between Washington and Seoul on the issue.

But the President cannot sign on to another summit document that is entirely aspirationalwithout facing political pushback. Before