Expectations Low As Trump Looks For Win In NKorea Summit

(AP) Jonathan Lemire February 25 2019 WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will head into his second meeting with North Koreas Kim Jong Un having reframed what would make a successful summit lowering expectations for Pyongyangs denuclearization while eager to declare a flashy victory to offset the political turmoil he faces at home. Trump was the driving force behind this weeks Vietnam summit aiming to recreate the global spectacle of his first meeting with Kim although that initial summit yielded few concrete results and the months that followed have produced little optimism about what will be achieved in the sequel. He once warned that North Koreas arsenal posed such a threat to humanity that he may have no choice but to rain fire and fury" on the rogue nation yet on Sunday declared that he was in no hurry for Pyongyang to prove it was abandoning its weapons. Im not in a rush. I dont want to rush anybody I just dont want testing. As long as theres no testing were happy" Trump told a gathering of governors at the White House. Hours earlier he ended a tweet about the summit by posing the key question that looms over their meeting in Vietnam: Denuclearization?" He did not provide an answer. Though worries abound across world capitals about what Trump might be willing to give up in the name of a win the president was ready to write himself into the history books before he and Kim even shake hands in Hanoi.