Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure? - Newsweek

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Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
By David Brennan On 2/28/19 at 1:01 PM

President Donald Trump’s much-feted summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended early and in disappointment on Thursday, when the U.S. delegation announced it could not reach any concrete deal on denuclearization with the authoritarian state.

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Hanoi might look like a setback, but historical context is important. After all, at one point the U.S. and North Korea looked to be on the brink of war. “Our definition of success was unrealistic,” Narang said. “Kim Jong Un showing up in Hanoi with the keys to his nuclear kingdom—that was never going to happen.

“There’s still a lot of room to make progress, and at this point the metric of success is not if North Korea is disarming, denuclearizing, but is the risk of conflict lower today than it was yesterday,” Narang said. “By that metric, I dont think it’s a failure, but it’s not necessarily a huge success either. Like a lot of these meetings, it is what it is.

“The risk is you go back to something worse.”

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