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Kim will not bite on Trump's economic bait

US should drop calls for 'big deal' denuclearization and focus instead on small steps

| North Korea
Kim Jong Un seems risk-averse.   © Reuters

What is the magic lure that will entice North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to dismantle his nuclear weapons program?

That was the question at the top of the agenda at the April 11 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae In, as it was at the Hanoi Summit between Trump and Kim in March and at their first meeting in Singapore last year.

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