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After summit diplomacy collapse, what's Donald Trump's North Korea Plan B?
Ilan Berman, Opinion contributor
Published 1:57 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019 | Updated 3:20 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019

In the aftermath of the scrapped Hanoi summit, it's time to formulate a new plan for dealing with the strategic challenge posed by the Kim regime.

The abrupt end on Thursday of President Donald Trump’s much anticipated second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, seems to have thrown a wrench into the administration’s plans for peace with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The precise contours of why the talks broke down aren’t fully clear as of yet. Going into the negotiations, the White House had hoped to be able to reach some sort of framework accord that would move the North Korean regime further toward denuclearization and détente. Indeed, even a more modest outcome — entailing a normalization of diplomatic ties between Washington and Pyongyang and some sort of arrangement to repatriate additional Korean War-era soldier remains  — would have been a clear political victory for the Trump administration.

It’s not clear that either outcome is still possible. How fundamental the rupture between the two leaders actually is, and how unbridgeable the apparent political gaps, remains to be seen. There is still hope that through the proper mix of political carrots and strategic sticks, the administration can coax the North Korea back to the nuclear negotiating table. Even so, in the aftermath of the scrapped summit, U.S. attention by necessity needs to turn to the formulation of a “Plan B” for dealing with the strategic challenge posed by the Kim regime.

Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/28/trump-should-sanction-neutralize-north-korea-denuclearization-summit-hanoi-column/3016167002/

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Who says collapse?  Now both sides know, where they stand. Obama wanted to go to war with No. Korea.
I say it was a great meeting.  Both sides put out their visions & plans & ideas.  No. Korea wanted ALL SANCTIONS REMOVED.
USA SAID..."NO".  See success by USA.  Now, No. Korea will re-think their plans. They now know, it is a 'NO" on sanctions.  Of course they had to try and go for the whole ball of wax.  It didn't work.  It was a meeting. Down the road, another meeting will be set up. No more ROCKET MAN.  3 hostage's freed. One nuclear site destroyed by Kim.  Soldiers remains being returned to America.
All success's with nothing given by USA!   Moving along nicely.

What do you think plan B will be?  Are you president?  Or KIM?   What is the point of hyperbole?