U.S. has little to show for stalled nuclear talks with North Korea

WASHINGTON_Nearly six months after President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un embraced at a Singapore summit and made vague promises of peace and prosperity, talks have flatlined and Pyongyang has taken no significant steps to reduce its nuclear arsenal or production facilities.

Fears of all-out war clearly have eased in northeast Asia since the two leaders stopped trading crude insults and invective, as they had in the months before the June 12 summit. And U.S. officials point to confidence-building measures, including North Korea's suspension since last spring of additional nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests.

But denuclearization, the primary U.S. goal, appears as distant as