Opinion: No, the North Korea summit was not a loss for Trump, henryolsenEPPC writes
President Trump leaves at the end of a news conference following a meeting, earlier Thursday, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. By Henry Olsen Henry Olsen Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought Email Bio Follow Columnist February 28 at 1:36 PM President Trump’s critics said he was too vain to walk away from a bad deal at his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Well, they were alone in a room, Kim did offer a terrible deal, and Trump calmly walked away. Indeed, by cutting the summit short and walking away without even signing a face-saving concluding statement, Trump made it clear that he was more interested in substance than show. North Korea’s leaders would have kept all their intercontinental missiles, all of the weapons-grade plutonium already produced and all the nuclear devices they might have stored, and they would have kept their entire nuclear inventory secret. Indeed, offering to dismantle their only known source for plutonium is itself a hint that they have developed alternative sources, making Yongbyon expendable. No serious leader would even have considered such an offer.
This in turn will bolster, not diminish, his popular standing at home. His backers will see their judgment vindicated: Trump took a risk, didn’t get what he needed and was shrewd enough to call off the meeting. Those who aren’t invested in their hatred for him might begin to see him in a different light. After all, they had just been told incessantly that Trump couldn’t do what he just did.
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