The chance that Trump was going to get a deal in Hanoi that would result in a clear and irreversible commitment to the ‘denuclearisation’ of North Korea was pretty much zero. Trump did the right thing in insisting on more than Kim was offering. There is a long way to go yet. My suspicion is that way at the bottom of the US briefcase is a realization that Kim won't and doesn't have to give up all of his nukes. His fear is that would lead to a Gaddafi type take down. The question is what to get for that. The only real solution is a type of political deal that greatly reduces tensions with a kind of mutual nuclear deterrence. That has worked for a long time with other countries. Bringing NK back out of the stone age economically and socially would be the goal I would think.
Carrot and stick.
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