Hard to say. The NORKs made vague promises to denuclearize. No specifics, no deadlines. We gave Kim a nice worldwide propaganda platform and promised not to run any more joint South Korean-US military exercises. We only do that once a year, and we just finished up this year's joint exercise a few weeks ago, and the next one wasn't scheduled until next year. If the NORKs prove uncooperative, we can easily reschedule a joint exercise for 2019.
Denuclearization will take some time, months at least, even with the best of good will from the NORKs. With just a tiny touch of bad will, it will take years. With a large dose of bad will it will take forever. The key issue is admission of American inspectors to North Korea, with no-knock authority, ability to go anywhere, inspect anything, with no advance notice given. The NORKs aren't gonna like that. It will take time to get that going, months, or worse. Until we get the NORK working bombs handed over to us, and our inspectors working in the North, we don't have much. It will take a long time to make this happen. Until it does, we cannot really say whether Trump's mission to Singapore was a success or not. We have a bunch of Lefty-Democrats on TV right now claiming Singapore was a failure, but it is really too early to tell.
For good things to happen, Kim whats-his-face needs to feel secure. If he and/or his regime loose power for any reason, he will loose his life, and he knows this. So distasteful as it may be, we will have to prop up the NORK regime.
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