How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets
HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining area of a French-colonial resort in Hanoi on Thursday the conversation with Kim Jong-un, with whom he’d struck up the oddest of friendships, the North Korean chief, was turning tense.
In a dinner in 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 posed as a grand deal: North Korea would exchange all its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.
A official later described this as”a proposition to go large,” a wager by Mr. Trump his force of personality, and view of himself as a consummate dealmaker, could succeed in which three previous presidents had failed.
However, Mr. Trump’s offer was essentially the same deal that the United States has pushed — and the North has rejected — to get a quarter-century. Intelligence agencies had warned himpublicly, Mr. Kim wouldn’t be willing to give the arsenal up entirely. North Korea itself had stated that it would just move.
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