If only he could blow away all sanctions.

President Donald Trump abruptly terminated a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim wanted sanctions lifted without offering much in return. "it was all about sanctions," Trump told reporters. "They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that." "Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times." North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said, "What we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions but the partial removal." He said that North Korea was willing to "permanently and completely dismantle all the nuclear productions facilities in the Yongbyon area, including plutonium and uranium, in the presence of US experts", which is the "biggest nuclear denuclearization measure we could take". "However, during the meeting, the United States insisted that we should take one more step besides the dismantlement of nuclear facilities in the Yongbyon." Kim's opinion of Trump must have been influenced by the venomous attacks by his enemies in the US who portray him as a "clownishly incompetent and willfully ignorant buffoon" After winning control of the House of Representatives in November's mid-term elections the Democrats have launched a series of investigations on Trump and his officials, hoping to tie him down and damage him before his re-election bid next year. Kim has shifted nuclear enrichment facilities to other sites and thought he was being very clever by offering Yongbyon as bait to get Trump to agree to lift sanctions. He would have been stunned when Trump walked out on him. "I think they were surprised we knew," Trump said. "They have to give up more." In a gloating article A Mitchell wrote that Trump failed for "ignoring warnings from your own intelligence chiefs that Kim Jong Un would never give up his nuclear weapons". Indeed, nuclear weapons are the only bargaining chip Kim has and he cannot relinquish them without real concessions from the US. But, the US will not remove sanctions unless it is satisfied that all such weapons have been dismantled, and that means that Kim will remain subservient to Xi Jinping of China. 90% of North Korean trade is with China and Kim has to dance to Beijing's demands, which must be humiliating for someone used to blowing away anyone who disagrees with him with anti-aircraft guns. At the very least, Kim has lost an enormous amount of face in front of his officials at being so contemptuously dismissed by Trump. He will not sleep easy from now on for fear of a coup. Those who are expert at bargaining know the art of when to walk away, wrote N Patel. "Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance," advised Sun Tzu. "If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him." Trump has done both. Up to Chairman Kim.