Trump Gave Kim a Summit But Left With Little to Show for It

It’s not clear what the U.S. got out of Singapore meeting
Summit delivered a longtime strategic goal for Kim family

Did Trump give North Korea too much? Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli reports from Singapore.Source: Bloomberg

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By Margaret Talev and Toluse Olorunnipa

June 12, 2018 at 11:22 AM UTC

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Donald Trump’s historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was unquestionably a success -- for Kim.

By credibly threatening the U.S. with nuclear war, he won a one-on-one meeting with the American president -- a longtime strategic goal of his family’s regime. And that’s not all.