What happened with N Korea
The Don desperately wants a legacy on the international stage. Meanwhile both Putin and Xi know how to play the Don - by manipulating his ego. Fatty III (Kim) was properly instructed how to do this.
So they met in Singapore. Kim told Trump that he would discontinue testing and dismantle his test sites IF the US stopped maintaining military preparedness; stopped all future war games. (IOW reduce US troop readiness to 80%.)
Trump loved it because, to Trump, than meant the entire Korean nuclear program ended. And that he was not giving up anything. He ignore his intelligence people and military advisors by even meeting Kim without those advisors (or note takers).
We know Kim no longer needs those test facilities. He has proven designs and a steady supply of rocket motors (apparently from Russia). So Kim was fully involved in constructing at least 20 hardened nuclear missile silos. The Don was told this and denied it. In part because Putin told him it was not true.
Second meeting. Rather than do the always required months of pre-meeting sessions to work out details, Kim knows exactly where the weakness is in America. Kim would do all talking only with The Donald. Those pre-meeting sessions only started two weeks before a Hanoi meeting. At this point, we have a first indication that The Don finally heard what all America intelligence agencies were saying.
First he tacitly admitted that N Korea had continued with nuclear weapon construction. So he said the VietNam meeting would be a success if it only banned testing. The Don lowered the bar so that Americans would not see how obviously he had lied even to himself about Singapore.
Well, N Korea offered to destroy all know uranium and plutonium ar sites (ie Yongbyon) if the US retracted all trade sanctions. Finally The Don had to listen to the American intelligence agencies. Missing from that N Korean list were many secret facilities (one only miles from Yongbyon). It was written all over the N Korean faces when the US asked about all those other sites. N Koreans assumed American did not know about any of them.
So The Don has no option but to finally listen to the American intelligence agencies. They had caught the N Koreans in obvious lies. And had forced The Don to admit he was being taken for a patsy. That is when The Don immediately terminated all talks - angry to discover who N Korea was playing for a fool.
By terminating military war games, the N Koreans only eliminated test facilities they no longer needed. To eliminate sanctions they would have kept many newer nuclear weapons factories and continued assembling nuclear missiles and silos. They were baiting the mark - The Don.
But this time The Don had no choice but to finally hear and believe the American intelligence community. This time the N Korean plan to play on The Donald's ego (that succeeded in Singapore) did not work in Hanoi.
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