How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets

Posted on AllSides March 3rd, 2019
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As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of friendships, was already turning tense.
In a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would trade all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/asia/trump-kim-jong-un-summit.html

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