Bangladesh, July 31 -- Will the Donald J Trump administration re-initiate its first- term nuclear diplomacy towards North Korea and seek to disarm it? Observers say any attempt to denuclearize North Korea will at best be a “a pipe-dream”. The Trump presidency still insists on the complete denuclearization of the peninsula. The regime of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un is unlikely to accept it.

In November 2023 North Korea asserted it would never sit face-to-face with the United States if its sovereignty—including its possession of nuclear weapons—was on the agenda. Earlier, in September 2022, the North declared it would never relinquish its nuclear weapons.

The reasons for the North Korean nuclear obstina...