One year after the handshakes, photo ops and circus-like fanfare of the first-ever summit between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, hopes that Pyongyang will soon give up its nuclear weapons have all but evaporated.
Following the Singapore summit, and another one in Hanoi earlier this year, U.S. talks with the North to relinquish its nuclear arsenal have hit a wall due to major differences over the scope of North Korea's denuclearization and potential sanctions relief by the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in his quest to reach a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and write his name into the history books, has turned the process of negotiating with the nuclear-armed country on its head.