Donald Trump is an American businessman and politician associated with the Republican Party. He served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. His tenure as president was known for his war of words with North Korea, a trade war with China, and his claims to build a wall to stop immigration from the south.
He is the first president to be impeached twice and one of the very few to not get a second term in office. Trump started his career by joining the family business and rose to be a real estate tycoon. He then went on to host reality TV before joining politics in 2016. While he faces numerous felony counts and civil and criminal cases in US courts, the most infamous is his alleged role in the 6 January Capitol Hill attacks, where his supporters stormed the building after Joe Biden won the presidential election in 2021.
North Korea has committed itself to “ complete denuclearisation “. That leaves no scope for America to recognise it, even informally, as a nuclear power. Capabilities developed at high cost, exacerbated by crippling sanctions, will have to be neutralised or surrendered, subject to verification and safeguards, including from the IAEA. No sovereign nation has gone so far in the past. It is now for America, its allies, and also China to start the process of dismantling sanctions and offering North Korea substantial economic benefits. It remains the only impoverished nation in East Asia. It people deserve to see an improvement in their living standards.