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Trump Can’t Be Both a Dealmaker and a Dealbreaker

President Trump wants to cut an ambitious nuclear deal with North Korea. But he just broke away from one of the most important nuclear agreements in the past fifty years.
Source: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

In a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Thursday, Donald Trump’s envoy to North Korea offered the most candid and detailed roadmap yet for the administration’s nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un. It was, as he acknowledged, extremely ambitious.

“I have this perfect outcome moment where the last nuclear weapon leaves North Korea, the sanctions are lifted, the flag goes up in the embassy [of the United States in Pyongyang],

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