Will Trump’s Halt To US-South Korean Exercises Work? Remember The Vietnam Bombing Halt

Will Trump’s Halt To US-South Korean Exercises Work? Remember The Vietnam Bombing Halt
Will Trump’s Halt To US-South Korean Exercises Work? Remember The Vietnam Bombing Halt

President Trump announced that the United States would stop flying bombers over South Korea and suspend exercises there to facilitate diplomatic negotiations with North Korea. This echoes President Johnson’s March 1968 decision to halt the bombing of most of North Vietnam, also done to encourage negotiations. In 1968 the effort succeeded, at least in the short…