Yesterday, I argued that it’s much too soon to be advocating a Nobel Peace Prize be granted to President Trump for his diplomatic progress on North Korea. Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, made much the same argument in his column today but with a few more specific reasons:

– “His [Kim’s] father destroyed a cooling tower in front of the international media in 2008.”

– “Promises to the U.S. to disarm? Pyongyang said it was ending its illicit plutonium program in the 1994 Agreed Framework.”

– “It said it was giving up ‘all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs’ in 2005 as part of the so-called Six-Party Talks.”

– “It said in 2007 that it was agreeing to specific steps to follow through on its 2005 commitment.”

“All came to nought,” Lowry said.

Trump’s posturing towards Iran and its nuclear agreement with the West has all along been met with skepticism, and with some merit.

He and all of us – and particularly his most ardent supporters who were last week chanting “Nobel!” – ought to adopt a similar measure of skepticism of Kim’s “commitments.”

@jeremywbeaman is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News