Why the Small Nuclear Supply Series with North Korea Can Work

Why the Small Nuclear Supply Series with North Korea Can Work

This week’s most recent talks between the US and North Korea have failed again. When U.S. President Donald Trump met North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi earlier this year, Trump walked out abruptly. This time it appears the North Koreans did. Perhaps it was turnabout as the North Koreans were apparently surprised and embarrassed that Hanoi collapsed so badly. Certainly the North Korean statement that these newest talks were ‘sickening’ and their refusal to return to another suggests the meeting went badly.

This was not that difficult to foresee. The U.S. keeps approaching negotiations with the North in search of a big-bang, all-or-nothing deal. But North Korea has repeatedly said that there is not enough trust between it and the U.S. for a mega-deal which would dramatically reduce its nuclear and missile arsenal, and that the U.S. offer of sanctions relief for large North Korean cuts is not enough. The North Koreans seem to want a smaller starter deal, or at least to avoid one final, end-all-be-all resolution.

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