trump: Trump and his top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, insist they made progress at their meeting with Kim and his lieutenants, but the reality is that the summit ended as a flop, according to The Japan Times. While Trump was arguably right to walk away from a bad deal, his lack of progress at the very least, a thin joint statement is a crippling indictment of his policy on North Korea. Prior to the meeting, North Korean state media presented their leader's trip as a long march to his countrymen, but now that Kim has come out empty-handed, he's likely to face some criticism back home. How did the high-stakes diplomacy unravel at the last minute Regional experts and analysts have long pointed to the dangers of holding a top-level summit while progress on hashing out details between working-level diplomats remained questionable. As Trump himself complained after the summit, his meeting with Kim coincided with damning congressional testimony by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who under oath, called him a cheat and a con man. One possible theory for Trump's decision to walk away may be tied to domestic matters.
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