Kim Jong-un has "already achieved a major objective, from his perspective," fmr top US negotiator Wendy Sherman tells me. "He has been able to get the President of the United States -- the most powerful leader in the world -- to sit in the same room as him as if he is an equal."
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3/ Sherman said that while she did not believe Kim is "in any rush to denuclearize," she was glad the US is entering into talks, even if it just starts with a meeting. "Talk is certainly better than war."
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4/ But the "greatest risk," she said, is "that the President and his team give this an effort, but because they don't get every single thing that they want that they say it's hopeless, and really create the prerequisite for war."
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5/ "There are lots of choices that are going to have to be made, and if the President feels that they all have to go the way that the United States wants them to go, we probably won't get to an agreement -- and we probably will find ourselves at war," Sherman said.
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6/ Former top US negotiator says Kim is 'in the driver's seat'http://cnn.it/2ImYGT7
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