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News Roundup for March 1

NPR: What’s in Store for Future Negotiations Between the U.S. and North Korea [by Scott Horsley] – Robert Gallucci interviewed – Feb 28​

TIME: Trump Walked Away from North Korea Talks. That’s Not Such a Bad Thing [by Feliz Solomon] – Jenny Town and David Kim quoted – Feb 28​

BLOOMBERG: Trump-Kim Summit Breakdown Reviews Doubts North Korea Will Disarm [Nick Wadhams and Margaret Talev] – Joel Wit quoted – Feb 28; Jewish World Review​

NEWS RELEASES & SELECTED STORIES

BBC WORLD SERVICE: Are Kashmir Tensions Easing? [by Tim Franks] – Robert Gallucci interviewed – Feb 28 (start at 30:00 mins)

VOX: What’s next after the Trump-Kim summit? An expert explain. [by Jen Kirby] – David Kim interviewed – Feb 28

REUTERS: Summit Live – Trump flies home after no deal at Kim summit; China urges patience – David Kim quoted – Feb 28

REUTERS: Smoke signals: Kim Jong Un’s sister rushed off her feet on Vietnam trip [by Hyonhee Shin] – Michael Madden quoted – Feb 28; Al Arabiya; F3 NWS; The Tribune

WIRED: Trump can’t make a North Korea deal on his own [by Brian Barrett] – Jenny Town quoted – Feb 28

ABC NEWS: What now? After 2nd Trump-Kim summit collapses, the road ahead for the US and North Korea [by Elizabeth McLaughlin] – Robert Gallucci quoted – Feb 21

AFP: Kim opens door to US presence in Pyongyang at nuke talks [by Saul Loeb] – David Kim interviewed – Feb 28; Space War; Daily Monitor; Today Line TH, Deccan Herald Online; The Express Tribune Online;  ABS-CBN News; Daily Sun

BLOOMBERG: Trump says he walked out on Kim after U.S. Demands Rejected [by Margaret Tavel, Youkyung Lee, Jihye Lee and Justin Sink] – David Kim quoted – Feb 28; Times of Israel; Fortune; Sentinel Source

AFP: India and Pakistan walk conflict tightrope: analysts [by Bhuvan Bagga and Nasir Jaffry] – Frank O’Donnell quoted – Feb 28; also Yahoo News; Breitbart; Journal du Cameroun; Siliconeer; Isto é Dinheiro; Estado de Minas; The Daily Sun; Malay Mail Online; The Siasat Daily Online; Daily Monitor

AGENCE FRANCE PRESS: Trump in ‘no rush’ as formal nuclear talks open with Kim – David Kim quoted – Feb 28; OutlookIndia; The Asian Age – Online; The Free Press Journal; The Independent Bangladesh; ABS-CBN; Times of Israel; Space War; The Manila Times;

POLITICO: ‘Sometimes you have to walk’: Why Trump Bailed on North Korea [by Eliana Johnson] – Joel Wit quoted –  Feb 28

VIET NAM NEWS: US experts comment on DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit’s outcomes – Jenny Town quoted – March 1; Vietnam

FRANCE 24: No Deal, No Problem at Trump-Kim Summit: analysts – David Kim quoted – Feb 28; EM Internacional; Digital Journal; Oman Daily Observer Online; The Peninsula Online; The Daily Star – City Online

BBC: Trump Kim talks: What to make of the Hanoi summit collapse? – Jenny Town quoted – Feb 28

POLITICO: Trump’s ticking clock on North Korea [by Bryan Bender] – Jenny Town quoted – Feb 28

NPR: Pakistan says it shot down Indian jets [by Steve Inskeep] – Sameer Lalwani interviewed – Feb 27; KPBS-FM; BBC World Service; KERA-FM; KSTX-FM; POPB-FM; WAMU-FM; KJZZ-FM; One Page Media; WUTC.org; NPR Pakistan

NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW ONLINE: Trump-Kim Summit falls apart over sanctions and covert sites [by Kim Jaewon, Mitsuru Obe and Sotaro Suziki] – Joel Wit quoted – March 1 

EURASIA REVIEW: Walkout in Hanoi: The Second Trump-Kim Summit [by Binoy Kampmark] – Joel With and Jenny Town quoted – March 1

THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: Hot Takes on the Hanoi Summit [by Dawn Stover] – Jenny Town quoted – Feb 28

NEWSFRONT: Trump Walks Out on North Korea Talks: ‘Wasn’t Enough’ – David Kim quoted – March 1 

REDSTATE: President Trump Pulling the Plug on the Hanoi Summit was Necessary to Progress – Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein cited – Feb 28

KNX BUSINESS HOUR WITH FRANK MOTTEK: Mottek on Money [by Frank Mottek] – Jenny Town interviewed – Feb 28

INDIA SEMINAR: The American Churn & South Asia – The Quad: Alliance or Alignment? [by Sameer Lalwani and Heather Byrne – Feb 29

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