Trump said he believes his talks with Kim will be 'very successful,' adding that he has not walked back asking for denuclearization.
A major nuclear breakthrough with North Korea is a long shot this week for President Donald Trump, but there are a number of ways to make real progress with Kim Jong Un at the leaders’ second summit in Hanoi.
"They've continued to run those facilities and make more bomb fuel — maybe for half-a-dozen bombs' worth of fissile material," said Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory who has visited North Korea seven times and toured some of its most sensitive weapons sites.Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox.By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO.
Still, any new North Korean commitments to close the uranium reprocessing centers would lend the Trump-Kim talks much-needed credibility, said Patrick Cronin, who chairs the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank.Getting Kim to recommit to the “We need a commitment to providing a data declaration on all of its nuclear missile programs — that would be production facilities as well as the arsenal itself," Klingner said. "That includes plutonium processing, uranium enrichment, refining of the fissile material, tritium production, the list goes on. Hopefully, North Korea will put more meat on the bones.”
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