President Trump has predicted that by abandoning nuclear weapons, North Korea will go on to emulate Vietnam — a communist state once locked in devastating conflict with the US, but now a thriving trade partner.
United States President Donald Trump touted North Korea’s “awesome” future if his “friend” Kim Jong-un, whom he meets for a high-stakes dinner later Wednesday, agrees to give up his nuclear arsenal.
Trump has torn up the script by embracing Kim and a regime long seen by Washington as the most repressive on the planet. But pressure is intensifying on the president to bring back concrete results. Now Trump promotes himself as someone who, by daring to do things differently, defused what he said was a near-war situation inherited on taking over the White House.
In fact, critics warn he is so keen to deal with Kim that he could give away too much, too quickly, endangering US allies South Korea and Japan.
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