Analysis: After traveling halfway around the world for a face-to-face meeting with Kim Jong Un, the president, who considers himself the world's ultimate deal-maker, pushed away from the negotiating table with nothing more in hand than he had arrived with.
It would be easy to simply stack the summit atop a gathering pile of political, policy and personal humiliations for Trump in recent months.
Victor Cha, the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an NBC News contributor, called the summit"an outright failure" Thursday. But, he said,"Trump made the right decision to push for more than minimal steps and take no deal over a bad deal." Even before he landed in Hanoi earlier this week, Trump's appetite for an accord appeared strong enough to North Korea experts thatSome of his critics saw a president desperate to score points on the international stage because of his domestic political troubles.
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