And here's the clincher.... the anti-Trump AP had to end on a note criticizing President Trump.  So they picked "Richard Gowan," a putative "UN expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations."

Wow! That's some qualification! 

Just look at how well Europeans have managed foreign relations for centuries and especially in the Balkans, the Baltics, the Ukraine, and in regard to mass illegal immigration.  One of their "experts" must have a definitive opinion.

Gowan thinks that the "general and personal sanctions are exceptionally severe."  The NK leadership was exempted from "personal sanctions" and the UN itself recently documented that sanctions were sui generis ineffective.

Then Gowan opined that it would have been smarter to work with China "behind the scenes."

News flash! The US attempt to work with China "behind the scenes" for decades has not contained the NK WMD/missile programs.

What would we do without a brilliant European like Gowan to analyze the NK crisis?