There were contradictory accounts of how President Trump’s summit meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, collapsed with no deal, their personal warmth yielding to hard disagreement. The North disputed this, saying it had asked only for some of the sanctions to be removed. One expert suggested that there had been inadequate preparation and that both leaders were too confident in their negotiating skills. North Korea may keep building out its nuclear arsenal, and tensions may rise again. And the failure presents a new setback for President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, whose signature policy vision has been to open up economic cooperation with the North.

Source: New York Times March 01, 2019 04:46 UTC