Three summits and many smiling photos later, Trump's North Korea strategy has the U.S. in a familiar place: An impasse, bracing for provocations.
told reporters
This undated picture released by Korean Central News Agency in October shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse in the first snow at Mt. Paektu, a place of symbolic and historic importance for North Korea. In a speech in Seoul last month, Robert Carlin, who was then an advisor in the State Department on negotiations with North Korea, quoted a memo from the time, saying could it just as well describe the situation today as it did in October 1998.
Before Trump, diplomats and negotiators would have met and for days or weeks on end to work out an agreement before the leaders would even consider meeting. In agreeing to meet with Kim on the spot, and putting out-sized emphasis on his own role in the talks, Trump turned that process on its head, setting in motion a summit before any details about what the two men would agreed to were discussed by their respective staff.
“Kim looks like he’s made completely new decisions that have been in place for months,” he said. With the U.S. focused on the Senate impeachment trial into the new year, he said, “my concern is that he figures this is an open road. You have to hope that he doesn’t lunge into something stupid.”
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