'A lot of dial tones': The inside story of how Trump's North Korea summit fell apart

[DonViejo]

By Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey
May 24 at 7:14 PM

The historic nuclear disarmament summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — the one that Trump thought might earn him the Nobel Peace Prize — crumbled nearly as quickly as it came together, in a sudden and startling decision Thursday morning by the American president.

Inside the White House residence, the first alarm sounded about 10 p.m. Wednesday when national security adviser John Bolton told Trump about North Korea’s public statement threatening a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” and mocking Vice President Pence as a “political dummy.”

Trump was dismayed by Pyongyang’s bellicose rhetoric, the same theatrics Trump often deploys against his adversaries. Bolton advised that the threatening language was a very bad sign, and the president told advisers he was concerned Kim was maneuvering to back out of the summit and make Americans look like desperate suitors, according to a person familiar with the conversations.

So Trump called it off first.

The result was a crushing disappointment for a president eager to achieve a peace accord with North Korea that his recent predecessors had failed to reach.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Amateurs

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. "He was concerned Kim was maneuvering to ....make Americans look like desperate suitors."

Well, Mission Accomplished, Kimmy.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. What did RUMP and his idiots expect? Obviously the nobel peace prize ...

on RUMP's part, prancing around claiming that he's entitled to this award. What a joke! There are far more deserving persons entitled to this award (if one is issued, I'm not sure that they (Nobel Peace Prize awarders) award this prize every year...