Okay, I'll make a prediction.
In five years time, North Korea will still have their nuclear deterent, except that it will be double (or even triple) the size it is now.
Kim Jong-un will be an even bigger hero in his own country than he is now, but will still be heading a brutal regime.
China will be an even stronger economic power than it is now and will be attracting more and more of the world's brightest scientists (see
THIS STORY published by
The Washington Post eight days ago) and will be leading the world in many aspects of science and technology.
Meanwhile, the United States of America will have become even more tribal and will be virtually at war with itself. If he is still president, Trump will be fiddling while Rome (America) burns and the world will be edging ever closer to the eventual
Thucydides Trap when America finally wakes up to the fact they are rapidly becoming the world's “former top dog” as China's economic (and military) power grows.
Oh, and trade will be flowing freely in both directions across the border between China and North Korea.
And.....Donald J. Trump will be blaming everybody in the world except himself for the situation America finds itself in.
Now: see if I'm right in five years time! Anybody want to have a bet on it? 8-)
