At face value, Donald Trump did the only thing possible: he couldn’t get what he wanted from the North Korea talks, so he walked away. The sticking point is sanctions. America says it will lift sanctions on Kim Jong-un’s regime if Kim dismantles his nuclear weapons programme first. Kim says he will only begin dismantlement if he gets his sanctions lifted in advance. Trump couldn’t accept Kim’s conditions and had to walk. All is not lost: the two sides are still talking, tensions have eased in the peninsula and North Korea hasn’t tested a device since 2017.
Politically, however, this tops a miserable week for the White House, which is coming to terms with the new reality of a Democrat-led House….
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