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Imagine if the entire U.S. military were here purely as a counterweight to China. I mean, Beijing would bring this whole peninsula

to its knees in a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Gault. My co-host

Jason Fields is frozen in carbonite.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jayin have met.

The Trump administration is on its way to talk denuclearization in the formal end of war that's lasted 65 years.

Is it peace in our time or peace in our time?

Here to help us cut through the noise and make sense of the news is B. R. Myers is a professor of international

studies at Dongsau University in Busan, South Korea. He was here with us a year ago just

after Donald Trump had become president and just before the election of Moon in South Korea.

Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Matthew. You made some predictions.

What's happened in the last year?

Well, you know, I predicted that a crisis in the U.S. South Korean alliance was on the horizon

and that prediction has come true and I took a lot of

criticism last year for allegedly overestimating the rift between the Blue House in Seoul and the White House in Washington and for

underestimating the alleged bedrock conservatism of the South Korean people who had supposedly become much more critical

of the North since the Sunshine Policy 10 years ago and so on. Well, those critics have become pretty quiet over the past

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