The current South Korean government after the failed coup is caught between a rock and a hard place - first because they need to keep the followers of their domnestic mad man out, the fat mad man in the north out, the Winnie the Pooh lookalike madman out and the orange mad men out. All combined with a challenging internal and external political climate even without all these factors and you have a job none really wants.

So I can absolutely understand for them to defuse and hoping to weather the storm out and see how things develop - even more so,since the Japanese tried to have trade talks and found out the hard way that the current US administration has no idea what they want.