March 29, 2024
Opinion

Was that it? The remarkably nebulous Singapore agreement

Trump had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to extract concessions from Pyongyang - and he blew it

So, the eagerly awaited first ever U.S.-DPRK summit is over: it took less than six hours for President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un to complete their meetings.

As President Trump headed to the summit, he promised that the results would be “wonderful." Indeed, they are, in a sense: every North Korean watcher wonders what might have happened to bring about such a truly unremarkable outcome.

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