Trump-Kim Summit: Kim Emerges King But His People Are Still Starving In every game, there are winners and losers. Singapore bet $20 million on the summit, and we want to know the outcome of our gamble — who won, who lost, and whether the summit was worth the jaw-dropping price tag. Winner: Supreme Leader of North Korea, Chairman Kim Jong Un We have to crown Mr Kim a winner of the summit for four main reasons. Source 1 & 2 1. Mr Kim really didn’t concede anything during the summit. There was nothing new: Mr Kim’s denuclearisation promise this time round was merely a “reaffirm[ation of] the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration”. The words, the “DPRK commits to work toward complete denucleari[s]ation of the Korean Peninsula”, also don’t mean much. North Korea has repeatedly given similar promises to abandon its nuclear programme since 1985. But because parties never could agree on the verification process, these promises always amounted to nothing. 2. Mr Trump said that war games in South Korea would stop As usual, Mr Trump didn’t bother to consult his policy makers and America’s allies. He really left them in the lurch when he sprang a US-is-going-to-stop-military-exercises-in-South Korea during […]
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