Analysis: The Trump administration backs off its hard line on a North Korea deal
window.havePowaBoot=true; By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow February 26 at 2:45 PM President Trump is in Vietnam for his second formal summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. From the beginning of this process, one of the biggest concerns was that Trump would be too eager to cut a deal. His lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, for example, suggests he is quite invested in a legacy-defining outcome.
It is. Not only complete denuclearization, but our capacity to verify that that has taken place. But by last month, we started to see some cracks in the ultimatum. While interviewing Pompeo, Fox News’s Rich Edson noted that Kim in his New Year’s address floated limited sanctions relief for incremental steps, including a pledge not to transfer arms. Pompeo did not dismiss it out of hand.
I don’t think there has been a single variant from the core proposition, which is the fully denuclearized North Korea, as verified by international experts, is the objective of this administration. We intend to achieve that. Fast-forward to today, and Pompeo is now making clear that certain types of sanctions could indeed be on the table. And that’s a shift — both tonally and practically — from where this whole thing began.
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