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No One Knows What Kim Jong Un Promised Trump

North Korea is reportedly continuing nuclear work. But it’s not clear that’s a violation of what it agreed to in Singapore.
Source: KCNA / Reuters

The optimism generated by President Trump’s meeting last month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is giving way to the reality of just how difficult it will be to persuade North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons. In fact, it’s difficult even to understand what Kim and Trump actually agreed to.  

Recent reports said U.S. intelligence agencies suspect that North Korea has, , “increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites;” has also, adds, made “plutonium-production reactor; and, reports, “considering ways to conceal the number of weapons it has and secret production facilities.” Separately,

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