Seoul and Washington are quietly hiring their divorce lawyers

Seoul and Washington are quietly hiring their divorce lawyers

For the first time since 1945, the two heads-of-state of the United States and South Korea would both prefer to end their two states’ alliance. Because the alliance is popular with South Korean voters, Lee Jae-myung would deny that publicly. Privately, he wants to preserve the fiction of one, to wind it down slowly, and failing that, to evade blame for the coming divorce. Trump has no such qualms. In terms of diplomacy and policy, however, the U…