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The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit was oversold and it under-delivered
By Kent R. Kroeger (June 12, 2018)
Donald Trump just committed the worst sin in business: He over-promised and under-delivered.
That is the single best way to lose your customer base.
So what happened?
Lets start with the good news. We are not on the brink of war with North Korea. Only a few months ago the U.S. was prepared to give North Korea a “bloody nose” with hypodermic attacks on some of North Korea’s nuclear weapons development facilities and missile launch capabilities. (We still are prepared to do so, if necessary).
In addition to strict economic sanctions negotiated with allies by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the U.S. was applying significant pressure on North Korea prior to Singapore.
Haley and Tillerson’s hard work brought North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the table. It was up to Trump’s foreign policy team, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security advisor John Bolton, to start the substantive negotiation process to denuclearize North Korea.
As Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, one of the few Democrats that doesn’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, said of the Singapore summit…
