Analysis: As one senator put it, 'nuclear disarmament is far more difficult than the art of the deal.'
Analysis: As one senator put it, "nuclear disarmament is far more difficult than the art of the deal."Evan Vucci / APGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — What happens when you hold a summit without doing your homework, and after ignoring warnings from your own intelligence chiefs that Kim Jong Un would never give up his nuclear weapons?, as President Donald Trump's did early Thursday morning.
He left it to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to nail down Kim's vaguely worded promise to denuclearize. But the past eight months have been frustrating for the secretary of state: On one fruitless trip to Pyongyang last July, Pompeo was snubbed by Kim, who refused to see him; and shortly after Pompeo left Pyongyang, the North Korean foreign ministry excoriated him for what it called"gangster-like tactics.
Last September, he told a rally in West Virginia that Kim"wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. We fell in love." Visitors to the Oval Office say the president has shown off Kim's letters as testimony to his pride in the emerging relationship. But 10 days earlier, on Jan. 21, NBC News had reported that North Korea was expanding its weapons programs with as many asBiegun also said at Stanford that before the Hanoi summit, the administration expected to achieve"a set of concrete deliverables, a roadmap of negotiations, and declarations going forward, and a shared understanding of the desired outcomes of our joint efforts.
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