Here is my Twitter thread unroll, which has been greatly retweeted, on what happens when a major political actor breaks the mold and takes risks for peace:

“The DMZ trilateral meetings this weekend should be seen as on par with Sadat’s 1977 visit to Jerusalem, which led to the Camp David Accords; and, the rise of Gorbachev in the late 1980s with his efforts at Soviet reform. These events divided both regional actors and analysts alike. Sadat would pay for his efforts with his life. Many Soviet experts doubted Gorbachev’s efforts were for real until 1990, and some continued to doubt. Sadat’s journey to speak at the Knesset and negotiate peace with Israel; and Gorbachev’s reform efforts domestically and internationally were often derided and doubted. But both Sadat and Gorbachev broke the mold and went against conventional wisdom. What we saw at the DMZ on Sunday may have been in part theatrical but not theatrics. It was a three-way effort to get the Korean peninsula out of the deep hole it was cast into in August 1945, compounded by hot and cold war thereafter. Trump must take responsibility for his recklessness with Iran and trying to sell-out the Palestinians, but his efforts for Korea are in a totally different category.”