Officials in Mr. Moon’s government have often said that Mr. Trump’s unconventional approach may offer the best chance for diplomatically resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis, a problem that successive United States administrations have failed to address successfully. But even after Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim met in Singapore and agreed to work toward the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” and to build “new” bilateral relations, South Koreans have lived with an abiding fear about the fragility of the diplomatic process. But things have not moved as quickly as Mr. Two months after the Singapore summit meeting, talks remain stalemated. Washington wants the North to make bolder steps toward denuclearization, such as revealing a full inventory of its nuclear assets and starting dismantling some of them.

Source: New York Times August 25, 2018 11:20 UTC