Kim/Trump meeting

I was surprised to hear so-called expert commentators say that the agreement that Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump signed on Tuesday was very thin.

What on earth did they expect from this historic, short, first meeting, between those two world leaders?

Clearly, Kim is not going to relinquish the only card that he possesses. He may well agree to nuclear non-proliferation, which he can drag on for years, and he may well sign a peace treaty with South Korea, but to abandon his nuclear arsenal and delivery system is quite a different matter.

President Trump’s highest and most urgent priority must be to get North Korea to abandon their ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). If they do, the USA will no longer be in immediate danger of a nuclear attack on their mainland. If he achieves that he will be a hero in the eyes of the US public, and to the free world, because he will have avoided any chance of a nuclear war.

A lesser, but but still, major achievement will be to get North Korea to agree to dismantle its entire missile delivery systems.

Donald Trump is a realist and master negotiator and he and his advisers will exploit, to its full extent, what they can out of the final agreement, over the coming months or years. Watch this space while the so-called experts continue to criticise everything that President Trump does. Brian Main, Dinsdale.