Mr. Trump wanted the quick rollback of the North’s entire nuclear weapons program. After returning home without badly needed relief from sanctions, Mr. Kim said he would give Mr. Trump until the end of the year to offer a new proposal. By gradually increasing the ranges of weapons tests in recent weeks, Mr. Kim appeared to be carefully calibrating his options with Mr. Trump. Firing short-range weapons may be an attempt to force a breakthrough in the stalled negotiations while not provoking Mr. Trump too far, analysts said. Deal will happen!”The long and tortured experience of negotiations with the North over its nuclear program is a familiar one.

Source: New York Times May 04, 2019 18:11 UTC