Many Americans went to bed Wednesday expecting an overnight nuclear deal between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. They woke up instead to…
Many Americans went to bed Wednesday expecting an overnight nuclear deal between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. They woke up instead to news that the summit in Vietnam had abruptly fallen apart.
What happened?
Perhaps Kim, sensing weakness in his American counterpart, overreached.
Here was an embattled U. S. president eager for a diplomatic victory to deflect attention from embarrassing headlines back home — a self-styled master deal-maker, looking to demonstrate he alone could solve intractable problems that had bedeviled predecessors.
Kim offered to dismantle one large nuclear processing site in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions, leaving his arsenal of 30 to 60 nuclear bombs intact.
Correctly, Trump said no and walked away from the Hanoi summit.
