Trump Won’t Find a Nobel Peace Prize in Pyongyang

The Korean Peninsula is far more dangerous than in 2019.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waits to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Amur oblast, Russia August 12, 2025, 3:12 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a reprise of two previous summits and one meeting, has said he will reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This sentiment was taken a step further in conciliatory gestures to Pyongyang by newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, sparking a wave of hopeful policy proposals from Asia watchers for U.S.-North Korea and inter-Korean peace deals. Yet after 30 years of failed diplomacy, is this simply a triumph of hope over experience?

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