This is really about Trump pardoning Kim as a foreshadowing for Trump pardoning Trump
No regime has reduced its entire population to cannon fodder more effectively than North Korea. Tyranny, oppression, fear and mass starvation.
Of course any advancement that brings them out of isolation is a good thing. Just as it is with Cuba and Iran.
The real message that Trump is selling us however is not 'practical engagement', it is "sure they have murdered and oppressed their people but lets give them a new page, forget the past and move forward".
Effectively all of the crimes will be erased and a new bright future with bright tall buildings and openings for American businesses will be embraced.
We are about to see Donald Trump engage in a "forgiveness regime".
Forgiveness in the morning, afternoon and evening.
Embrace terrible dictators and release grandmothers in jail.
We are going to see months and months of acts of "pardoning and forgiveness".
All as a part of conditioning to that point he will forgive himself on behalf of the American people, it will sound something like this.
"I was never aware of all of the various meetings that were held with the Russians or all of the things that the Russians did to interfere with the elections. We cannot proceed any further by arguing about things that are over and no longer have any meaning anyway. In that spirit I will pardon all of the people involved in these acts so we can move forward. While I was not aware or active in any of these contacts I am going to include my name among the others so we can have a clear separation and move to a future where Americans will establish peace among all nations, like I did with North Korea."