Ankit Panda

So much for Trump's diplomacy. Kim sees the key to keeping his nuclear weapons and winning sanctions relief as more nukes, better missiles, and thus more leverage.

When confidence building doesn’t work, a bit of confidence busting is in order. That’s now happening on both sides. Kim is showing his patience is limited. And so is Trump.

The difference between a rocket launching a satellite and a missile with a warhead? Not so much. But North Korea has played with that distinction before and may do so again.

The Russians hyped a cruise missile launch earlier this year. But a briefing by the CIA and a second agency determined that it was essentially a hoax.

Kim Jong Un’s vision of the future is economic development under the protection of his own nuclear umbrella. Trump’s not going to change that, and had better learn to work with it.

On Sunday, North Korea is expected to parade its greatest military assets: the missiles it could use to attack the U.S. with nuclear warheads.

By dismantling a missile engine test site, the North Koreans are giving up something that they no longer need and something that can be quickly and relatively easily reconstituted.

Trump doesn’t know that Kim isn’t going to give up his nukes—and that could blow everything up. Literally.

The only language on ‘denuclearization’ the two sides agreed on in their joint statement was complete pablum, and it puts the future relationship with South Korea in doubt.

The collapse of the North Korean summit suggests that John Bolton’s influence is on the rise inside the White House.