A U.S. aircraft carrier-led strike group has been deployed to the Korean Peninsula waters, which Ginsberg said is not just a warning to North Korea but also to China.
“I think the signal is as much a follow up to his meeting with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] as it is to his warning to Pyongyang,” Ginsberg said of President Donald Trump, adding that this could mean the U.S. leader is not going to remain patient for long.
It is likely, according to Ginsberg, that Trump’s “efforts with President Xi of China to try to compel China to take stronger actions against North Korea’s nuclear program, probably, did not result in any significant breakthrough.”
Regarding North Korea’s nuclear program, Ginsberg said he believes the unpredictability of the rogue state’s actions makes it difficult to define a red line.
“The fact that we may see another nuclear test by the regime while the carrier group gathers around the Korean Peninsula, it almost reminds you — I hate to harken back to this — but it reminds you of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis,” he said.
“Who’s going to blink here? And it’s extraordinarily dangerous in my judgment and there’s no parallel in history because we’ve never had anything like this before, but I’ve been trying to study up on 1962 because that’s the only parallel that I can draw,” Ginsberg added.
