Outside the Beltway

Is the United States finally ready to give up on the fantasy that North Korea will surrender its nuclear weapons?

President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un met at the Demilitarized Zone for what amounts to their third summit in a year. As with the previous two, there was nothing of substance accomplished.

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

A possible way forward?

Trump and Iran.

Patrick Shanahan is out as nominee to be Secretary of Defense after questions were raised during his background investigation.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

The Trump Administration continues to misstate what the DPRK agreed to regarding its nuclear program. That’s why talks between the two nations are stalled.

While the American media was paying attention to President travels and travails in Europe, there was another meeting taking place.

The DPRK sent a message to the United States over the weekend, but it’s unlikely the President was listening.

The White House claims to want to talk to Iran but the President’s actions make clear that negotiation is the furthest thing from his mind.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

A very strange campaign trail gambit from India’s prime minister.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

In the wake of the failure of the Hanoi Summit to reach any agreement at all, North Korea appears to be returning to old form.

Once again, President Trump gets taken for a sucker by the North Koreans.

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In the end, the reason the Hanoi Summit failed is because the Trump Administration is pursuing an unattainable goal.

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

The American withdrawal from the I.N.F. Treaty gives Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants.

As threatened late last year, the Trump Administration has withdrawn from the Intermediate=Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is a mistake.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

President Trump recently blamed former President Obama for “losing” Crimea. It was never ours to lose.

As expected, the North’s nuclear development continues.

The world loses a genuine war hero.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

As part of her position as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has use of a rather lavish private residence. This is not a real controversy.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

Two months after the Singapore Summit, there’s no sign that anything substantive has been accomplished on the Korean Peninsula.

The Trump Administration continues to insist that North Korea is violating promises that it clearly never made.

The Trump Administration is falsely claiming that the North Koreans made commitments at the Singapore Summit that they clearly didn’t agree to.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, is rejecting calls that he should resign in the wake of what everyone seems to agree was a disastrous summit meeting with Vladimir Putin.

The Trump Administration is inviting Vladimir Putin to Washington, D.C. for a second summit in the fall. What could possibly go wrong?

More evidence that North Korea isn’t living up to the promises it made in Singapore.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

President Trump is touting his Photo Op Summit as the end of the North Korean nuclear threat. Reality is quite different.

The Singapore Summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was about as substance-less as most analysts anticipated it would be.

With the start of the Singapore Summit just hours away, it’s not at all clear what the respective parties can possibly agree to other than what amounts to a photo opportunity.

A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.

Among the stumbling blocks to a DPRK nuclear summit: who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel room?

Just over a week after he called it off, President Trump announced this afternoon that the June 12th Summit in Singapore was back on.