President-elect Donald Trump has made no secret of his ambition to negotiate big diplomatic agreements. He wants to forge peace between Ukraine and Russia, and he wants to finalize a historic peace agreement both between Saudi Arabia and Israel and between Israel and the Palestinians. The last seems an unlikely mix, to put it mildly. Trump even seems to want semi-detente with Iran, a country that has spent the past three years plotting to assassinate him.

Trump is keen to rekindle his previously amicable ties with Kim Jong Un, aiming for fresh negotiations with the North Korean leader. These discussions would ideally culminate in an agreement that diminishes North Korea’s nuclear threat to the United States, South Korea, and Japan.