Trump is a useless negotiator, and Kim Jong-un will know that | Jonathan Freedland
(The Guardian North Korea)

The president´s desperation shows, and he has no eye for detail - flaws that have seen him suckered countless timesNext week will see tested one of the enduring fictions of current politics: the myth of Donald Trump, master negotiator. That the myth lives on was demonstrated afresh on Thursday with the leaking of after-dinner remarks by Boris Johnson urging his audience to `imagine Trump doing Brexit`. The foreign secretary fantasised about the US president going in `bloody hard`. Perhaps growing flushed at the prospect, he mused: `Actually, you might get somewhere. It´s a very, very good thought.`Johnson was merely echoing the US president´s perennial boast that he brings to geopolitics the skills of a boardroom maestro. When Trump launched his candidacy in 2015, he declared: `We need a leader that wrote The Art of the Deal.` Continue reading...