I mean I'm all for trying to get North Korea to peacefully denuclearize, or even having talks so that you can start getting a better beat on the internal dynamics of the people in charge(would of preferred no Trump for a while, because, Trump). I just had very little expectation that success was in the cards, especially because Trump is, well, Trump, and the chance of a monumental catastrophe had to of been in the cards. On a superficial level, what did annoy me was the jump in trying to give Trump his trophy because people are so determined to lower the bar as far as it needs to go for him to get over it and claim victory.
The whole of North Korean diplomatic history around nuclear proliferation was a heavy warning to anyone interested in seeing both why even a meeting was not some monumental moment, as we had been there before, plenty, only to see the same things repeat over and over, and why it was more than likely false hope. As North Korea sees nuclear weapons as their strongest guarantee of regime safety and the notion Trump was going to walk out of Singapore with the keys to Kim's nukes was naive.
