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Rather than let low level negotiators hammer out details many weeks before the meeting, North Korea was only going to negotiate with the weakest link in the American government: Trump.
It worked in Singapore. Trump vocally announced he has solved the N Korea problem - because he lives in his fictional world. All he did is surrender military readiness for a promise to no long test missiles and bombs. All that testing was completed anyway. Kim negotiated everything from a ego whose only concern is his popularity and legacy.
Well, N Korea's ambush of Trump in Hanoi failed. N Korean negotiators were shocked to learn that the US knew of their so many secret nuclear construction facilities. So the gambit failed.
No problem. Their test launch sites remain unnecessary. But other testing facilities (ie for rocket motors) is now being rebuilt. They will keep the promise of not 'test launching'. And now will more overtly continue with construction of nuclear bombs and missiles.
N Korea did not do all this on their own. Those rocket motors (in part or in full) must have come from Russia. They did not make those nuclear developments without outside help. Putin has also played Trump for the ity bity egotist that is The Don.
Other missile development facilities are now being upgraded. A site that launches satellites is now being readied for something. Once one can orbit satellites, then sub-orbital launching of nuclear weapons is possible. With reentry being a last problem.
So what did Trump get? Well, thanks to an intelligence community (that Trump routinely disparages), Trump this time did not surrender more for nothing. Hanoi was the American intelligence community finally showing Trump that his ego has kept him misinformed and easily played by people he calls friends. The North Korea problem continues to get worse. And Korean/American military readiness now suffers.
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