North Korea's denuclearisation offer: Trump scores a win, but at high risk

Potential gains also seen amid dangers on Iran, NATO, trade

North Korea’s offer to suspend nuclear and missile tests in exchange for talks with the US reflects an emerging truth about President Donald Trump’s unconventional foreign policy style: It may heighten the risk of conflict, but also the potential for breakthroughs.

As Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday: “the US is ready to go hard in either direction.”

Few diplomats or analysts believe that Kim Jong Un’s offer, relayed by South Korea, will in fact deliver a denuclearized Korean peninsula in exchange for the US security guarantees suggested as a basis for talks.

The Kim dynasty has a history of dangling the