After meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a few months ago, Donald Trump claimed he had convinced him to give up his nuclear weapons, and the American people (and the world) had nothing more to fear from North Korea. That was far from the truth.
After the meeting was over, North Korea continued to produce nuclear material capable of being turned into a bomb, and they actually increased their production of missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for thousands of miles. Now we learn from NBC News that they have continued making those nuclear bombs, and taking action to hide the storage of those nuclear weapons. Not only has North Korea not taken any steps to denuclearize, they have not even slowed production of the nuclear weapons.
The Trump administration press secretary tried to put a good face on the failure by saying it's good that talks continue between the two nations. That is not true either. The North Koreans have been so uncooperative in those talks, that Trump has, at least for now, discontinued them.
The Singapore Summit was not just an epic failure, but it was also a colossal foreign policy blunder. And it has put the United States in a worse position than it was before the summit. By cutting out our allies and China, Trump painted himself into a corner, and left himself with no real options.
He cannot now take military action against North Korea. None of our allies would support that now, or take part in it. And the economic sanctions are now looser than ever. That's because China, worried about being left out of the summit and angered by Trump's trade war against them, are no longer taking those sanctions seriously. They have increased trade with North Korea, and the North Korean economy is doing better because of that.
The Singapore Summit only accomplished one thing for the U.S. -- it highlighted Donald Trump's incompetence and complete lack of understanding of diplomacy and foreign policy.
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