| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | Five takeaways on the canceled Trump summit with Kim | President Trump’s decision to cancel a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has left a sense of unease over the region’s future that many had hoped wouldn’t return after a tumultuous 2017.
The cancellation wasn’t a complete surprise given the ramped-up rhetoric from Pyongyang over the past week. For President Trump, the summit’s proverbial nail in the coffin appeared to be North Korea’s Wednesday night statement calling Vice President Pence a “political dummy” and threatening a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” if there was no meeting.
By Thursday morning, Trump had dictated a letter to Kim saying that “based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement” the summit that had been planned for June 12 in Singapore “will not take place.”
Here are five takeaways from that decision. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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