After U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un¡¯s ¡°historic¡± summit last week, it is tempting to heap praise on the meeting as a starting point for defusing tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, which some claim was dangerously close to all-out nuclear war last year.
Or so the small, but vociferous, chorus of defenders of the summit might argue.
For sure, the Trump-Kim summit did have its merits. It dialed back tensions that were escalating quickly over the past year, as highlighted by Trump¡¯s threats to ¡°totally destroy¡± North Korea with ¡°fire and fury¡± in order to curtail Pyongyang¡¯s nuclear ambitions.
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