US President Trump has abruptly walked out of talks with Kim Jong un in Hanoi because, it is said, North Korea insisted on the US removing sanctions before it would disarm its nuclear weapons. The move seems surprising only because both leaders went all the way to Vietnam before the US revealed the impasse. Some are suggesting it was a tactic to bring the little despot down to size. “Sometimes you have to walk,” Trump explained at a closing news conference after the summit was abruptly cut short. He said there had been a proposed agreement that was “ready to be signed.”
