Economics
Second Trump-Kim Summit Coming After Scant Signs of Progress
- Trump argues halt in missile tests shows his plan’s working
- ‘The most likely outcome is rinse and repeat,’ analyst says
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President Donald Trump is set to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in less than three weeks, yet the biggest question hanging over the leaders’ second summit is why they’re even having it.
Since their historic face-to-face meeting in Singapore eight months ago, North Korea has made little progress toward giving up its nuclear weapons and continues to do what it can to evade sanctions. The top U.S. negotiator with Kim’s regime acknowledges that the two sides still don’t agree on what denuclearization might look like or what the U.S. might offer to satisfy him.