North Korea says it won't give Trump a summit for free

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16. The issue hasn't changed since Singapore

The main problem is the "all or nothing," or whole bundle approach on the US side v. the step by step approach that is regarded by the phalanxes of hard liners in the US as "appeasement." So the fundamental obstacle or deadlock in the talks never really changes.

The hardline view is really antithetical to change other than regime change in support of the institutional interests that exist and profit from the status quo of maintaining the Korean conflict indefinitely.