Relations with North Korea may not be as “fine” as Trump thinks. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images The size of Trump’s Senate win did not impress Kim Jong-un. In fact, it appears that while Americans were still voting on Tuesday, Pyongyang’s senior negotiator Kim Yong-chol ghosted on the flight he was supposed to take to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York. At midnight, the State Department issued a statement saying that the meeting was off, but conversations were ongoing. That didn’t stop President Trump from insisting at his postelection press conference on Wednesday that he would meet with his counterpart again in the new year. “We’re very happy with how it’s going with North Korea,” Trump added. “We think it’s going fine.” Observers had already been predicting that U.S.–North Korea talks were close to going off track, and Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol would have nothing to offer each other at the New York meeting. The core problem hasn’t changed since the Trump–Kim Singapore summit in June. Washington wants North Korea to take verifiable steps toward disarmament, with a peace treaty and progress on sanctions removal as rewards. The North wants a peace agreement, sanctions removal, then disarmament —… Read full this story
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