To me, it isn't surprising that Kim Jong Un cancelled summit

To put the kind of pressure on Kim Jong Un that he could turn into another dead Qaddafi stabbed live on TV by his own people really wasn't a useful message to send Kim Jong Un.

In the U.S. we tend to be very arrogant (Trump and Pence now) and I don't think this is as useful as many people would like it to be.

Remember this is a man who fed his uncle to lions while he was still alive and who commissioned his own brother to die from poison delivered through a wash cloth over his face at an airport in another country than his own.

This is not someone to screw around with to begin with because this man spells "Desperation" and that he would literally do anything with nukes at any time if he would do this to his own uncle and brother.

Trump and Pence appear to be clueless as to what a "Bad Actor" this Kim Jong Un actually is.

What do criminals want (even if they are dictators taught to be worshipped by all the people on pain of death). They want respect.

Even I know this from counseling juvenile offenders in the 1990s who had had 7 felonies each without using a gun. The one thing criminals want is respect.

And if you don't give them respect then they will kill you. No questions asked.

Two counselors  doing what I did after I quit in San Jose were killed by the 7 felonies crews in the 1990s by the way.

Being intuitive I knew just how long I could stay and stay alive trying to save young men between the ages of 12 and 17. And even then I only had a 1 in 4 chance of saving anyone from a life of crime.

Kim Jong Un is criminally insane like Hitler and Mao and others before him. To trust this man with anyone or anything is not useful. But, to threaten him into becoming another Qaddhaffi is only going to get many many people killed in North Korea or other places on earth.

This man is more dangerous than Osama Bin Laden was to world peace at this point.

He is going to sell nukes to Iran and to Saudi Arabia and to other countries just to piss off the U.S. and Europe if for no other reason than that.

And likely there is nothing the U.S. or Europe or even China is going to be able to do to stop this.

Especially with Russia and China helping Kim Jong Un screw the world up with nuclear weapons.

It's not that China and Russia want nukes all over the place either. It's just that they are loving just how screwed up the U.S. and Europe are right now. And anything they can do to upset the U.S. and Europe they are going to do just for spite. Even while they say they are doing something else.