HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled to the dining room of a resort in Hanoi on Thursday the dialogue with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck the oddest of friendships, was turning stressed.
In a dinner in the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took refuge during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would exchange all its nuclear weapons, material and amenities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.
A official later described this as”a proposal to go large,” a wager by Mr. Trump his force of personality, and perspective of himself as a consummate dealmaker, could succeed in which three previous presidents had failed.
However, Mr. Trump’s deal was essentially the exact same deal that the United States has pushed — and the North has rejected — for a quarter-century. Intelligence agencies had warned himpublicly, Mr. Kim would not be eager to give up the arsenal entirely. North Korea itself had stated that it would proceed.
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