what could go wrong?

The demands that Pompeo made for this in Pyongyang last July are what caused the breakdown in the talks after the June 12 summit.

When Pompeo was in Pyongyang October 7, 2018, the US demand for a complete inventory of nuclear weapons production facilities, weapons, missile bases, and so on,the so-called "hek list," as a condition for a second summit had already been dropped. If it wasn't the talks would have ended there, and Pompeo wouldn't have been invited back to Pyongyang.


More good faith step by step, reciprocal trust building measures are necessary before the negotiations will proceed to any sort of comprehensive inventory of all nuclear weapon program assets and inspection and verification measures. A framework to schedule and identify the steps along the way to this objective needs to reached.

Trump will probably give them Washington and Oregon before this is over.

I'm sure the gop will be proclaiming trump's genius in keeping us "safe," even though he also took us out of the Iran agreement.

Idiots.

but they're under perpetual audit by the IRS, you see.

U.S. drops demand for full accounting of N. Korea nuclear program ahead of talks

The country's refusal to disclose all of its nuclear materials is the issue over which talks fell apart a decade ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-drops-demand-full-accounting-n-korea-nuclear-program-n977251?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_mtp

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Disclosure of a full, verifiable declaration of North Korea’s programs is the issue over which the last round of serious negotiations between Pyongyang and world powers, including the U.S., fell apart a decade ago.

Negotiations between U.S. and North Korean officials in advance of Trump and Kim’s second summit, which begins Wednesday night over dinner in Hanoi, have focused heavily on a core component of Pyongyang’s program, the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, officials said. Dr. Siegfried Hecker, a nuclear scientist who has visited the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center numerous times to assess the country's capabilities, said dismantling elements of the facility would be the most significant step North Korea could take toward denuclearization.

“Yongbyon is the heart of North Korea’s nuclear program,” Hecker said, explaining that completely dismantling the reactor there would be critical and would mean North Korea would never be able to make plutonium there again.

The Trump administration is hoping to get a significant concession from North Korea on Yongbyon, but it’s unclear if the U.S. can offer something in exchange that Kim would accept. North Korea wants sanctions relief, and U.S. officials have advised the president against taking such a step at this stage in negotiations. North Korea has offered to freeze activity at Yongbyon in past rounds of negotiations with previous U.S. administrations.

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from an incompetent Repub Presidential pretender.

Lower expectations to look more successful.