Trump fails to win North Korea nukes deal
The talks between North Korea and the US that took place in Vietnam collapsed last week.
The talks between North Korea and the US that took place in Vietnam, aimed at getting the communist regime to give up its nuclear weapons, collapsed last week, reports The New York Times. North Korea rejected President Trump's offer to "go big" and "trade all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy".
For its part, the US rejected a counter-offer from North Korea to dismantle one part of its nuclear programme in exchange for an end to the "most damaging" sanctions.
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Still, it's hard to see how any further progress can be made, says Edward Luce in the Financial Times. There is talk of another summit, but the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "now has the global recognition he wants and can wait out the clock for Trump's presidency to end".
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In any case, it's questionable whether Trump "has the patience to, or the realistic possibility, of persuading Kim to do something he has no intention of doing". Instead of pursuing the "chimera" of a North Korea-US peace deal, Trump would be better advised to pay more attention to the current "dangerous stand-off" between India and Pakistan.
Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.
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