Troy Stangarone on Trump’s Diminished Leverage over North Korea
KEI Visiting Senior Fellow Troy Stangarone wrote in The Dispatch about why Washington's leverage over Pyongyang has eroded since Trump's first-term summits with Kim Jong Un.
KEI Visiting Senior Fellow Troy Stangarone wrote in The Dispatch about why Washington’s leverage over Pyongyang has eroded since President Trump’s first-term summits with Kim Jong Un, and what it would take to restart nuclear talks.
“A single gesture, however dramatic, will not bring the two sides back together,” Troy Stangarone writes.
Read the full op-ed, “Is Trump’s Kim Jong Un Love Affair One-Sided?,” published August 25, 2026, by clicking here.
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