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President Donald Trump’s most promising foreign policy initiative, engaging North Korea, has stalled. Expecting the North’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons, and do so quickly, never was realistic. Failing to propose smaller deals, mixing specific nuclear limits with sanctions relief, lost the opportunity to test Kim’s willingness to moderate his regime’s ambitions.
Views expressed in Opinion articles are exclusively the authors’ own and do not represent the views of NK News.
President Donald Trump’s most promising foreign policy initiative, engaging North Korea, has stalled. Expecting the North’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons, and do so quickly, never was realistic. Failing to propose smaller deals, mixing specific nuclear limits with sanctions relief, lost the opportunity to test Kim’s willingness to moderate his regime’s ambitions.
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