About the Author
Joshua H. Pollack
Joshua Pollack is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and editor of the Nonproliferation Review.
Views expressed in Opinion articles are exclusively the authors’ own and do not represent the views of NK News.
With the advantage of hindsight, the abrupt conclusion of the Hanoi summit in February 2019 was the beginning of the end for U.S.-North Korean diplomacy in the Trump era. In its immediate aftermath, according to a senior North Korean diplomat, Kim Jong Un “may have lost the will” to continue talking with the United States.