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    Doyle McManus: Trump's Potemkin diplomacy in North Korea

    by Doyle Mcmanus, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes

    It's undeniable: President Donald Trump's photo-op meeting with Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea on Sunday made for great television.

    "This is a historic moment," Trump said for the cameras, in case anyone missed the point.

    But was it also great statecraft - or merely a clever stunt?

    Without tangible progress soon, the apparently impromptu DMZ summit will turn out to have been Potemkin diplomacy - a shiny facade with nothing underneath.

    The only

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