Alt virket så lovende da Moon Jae In møtte Kim Jong Un på grensen mellom de to land 27. april. Optimismen var stor. 

Nord-Korea uteble fra et møte i Singapore sist uke som skulle planlegge toppmøtet mellom Kim Jong Un og Donald Trump. Den amerikanske delegasjonen ventet og ventet. Ingen kom.

Det var et signal det ikke gikk an å ta feil av. Møtet var berammet av utenriksminister Mike Pompeo og den nordkoreanske utenriksministeren.

White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin and other U.S. officials arrived in Singapore to meet with North Korean officials for a meeting that had been set up by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his North Korean counterparts.

“They waited and they waited,” a senior White House official said. “The North Koreans never showed up. They simply stood us up.”

The major snub was one part of a “trail of broken promises” by North Korea in recent weeks that led Mr. Trump to cancel the June 12 summit, the official said.

North Koreans stood up White House advance team in Singapore