“He is very rational within his own context — Kim Jong Un, that is.”
Considering the long-running battle of taunts and provocations between the North Korean leader and President Trump, Lisa Monaco had to make such a clarification. “[Kim] is quite rational in trying to maintain the continued existence of the regime,” Monaco told me in the latest episode of “Cape Up.” “That means continuing to have this nuclear capability as his hedge against anybody trying to overthrow that regime and to stop his leadership.”