Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi is a diplomatic triumph for Pyongyang. For the second time in under a year, the North Korean leader gets to strut his stuff on the world stage. Kim Jong-un is able to stand next to President Trump as – in his imagination – an equal. The Americans, for their part, have had to come to the table and are going to (among other things) likely hear demands for them to reduce their military presence in and around Korea. No, it’s not dignified, but what else can the president do?
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Can anything come from these talks? Maybe. Both sides clearly want there to be some progress in the today. Trump made his ambitions pretty clear when he announcedat the governor’s ball that he saw these talks as a chance to do something ‘very, very special’.
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