Trump-Kim Deal Signals North Korea May Never Give Up Its Nukes
- Agreement leaves out U.S. demands for ‘verifiable’ disarmament
- Pompeo dismissed concerns about Singapore deal as ‘semantics’
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hasn’t given up a single nuclear weapon, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from reassuring Americans on Twitter that they should “sleep well” because the nuclear threat from Pyongyang is over.
That public strategy is leading some analysts to believe Trump might be willing to live with a nuclear armed North Korea just as the U.S. has learned to live with other nuclear nations, like Pakistan and India.