Trump’s North Korea Summit Goal: Lock In the Steps to Denuclearization
To disprove skeptics, Kim Jong Un will have to go beyond Pyongyang’s recent unilateral gestures and agree to irrevocable actions
WASHINGTON—President Trump will press North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to take his first irrevocable steps toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when the two leaders meet this week for a second summit in less than a year.
A top U.S. goal is to persuade Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear weapons and missile programs while the two sides continue far-reaching talks encompassing denuclearization and punitive international sanctions.
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