What now? Analysts see difficult path to a deal — and a distracted U.S. president
ANALYSIS — The table was set for a working lunch inside a posh Hanoi hotel, silverware wrapped in carefully folded napkins atop yellow plates flanked by flowers placed on a long rectangular table. But President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un never stepped foot in the room — and their path to a deal is newly murky.
Reporters in Vietnam for the duo’s second nuclear disarmament summit were positioned on one side of the room, some tweeting pictures of the lunch table as they waited. Soon came this dispatch from the day’s print pooler, David Nakamura of the Washington Post, quoting a White House spokeswoman: “There has been a program change.”
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The table was set and food prepared for a working Trump-Kim lunch that now won’t happen.
That announcement, it turned out, was an understatement.
View the complete February 28 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.