After the U.S. reached a deal with Iran, the focus may now be moving to another nuclear problem.
South Korea’s president said Trump told him:
The time has come to focus on North Korea’s nuclear program.
The comment came during their meeting at the G7 summit in France.
South Korea also raised another issue.
The president said sanctions on North Korea are becoming less effective because Russia is helping Pyongyang.
And that creates a much harder problem.
North Korea is not a country that is just trying to build a nuclear program.
It already has nuclear weapons.
So any new negotiation would be very different from past talks.
There is already speculation about what happens next.
Polymarket is showing about a 21% chance of Trump meeting Kim Jong Un this year.
The reaction online has been mixed, with some people joking about a possible new deal and others questioning whether another round of talks would actually change anything.
The interesting question is this:
If sanctions are weaker because North Korea has new support, and North Korea already has nuclear weapons, what would a realistic agreement even look like?
Because this is not the same situation as before.
The world is dealing with a nuclear state that already has the leverage.