Donald Trump’s summit in Singapore may have been the first time a sitting US president has met a North Korean leader at the negotiating table but it follows a long history of high level American engagement with Pyongyang over its nuclear ambitions.
Unfortunately for President Trump, who has implied a victory that his predecessors were incapable of achieving, the path to peace has been littered with grandiose statements that ended in failed deals and broken promises.
History offers parallels that sound a note of caution. North Korea first started operating a small reactor tailored for making weapons-grade plutonium in 1986.
However, it was only in 1992 that the US and North Korea rekindled diplomatic…
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