HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled to the dining room of a French-colonial resort in Hanoi on Thursday morning with whom he had struck the strangest of friendships the North Korean chief, already turned stressed.
At a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the night before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump posed as a grand deal: North Korea would exchange all of its nuclear weapons, material and facilities for an end to the American-led sanctions squeezing its economy.
An American official later explained this as”a proposition to go big,” a wager by Mr. Trump his force of personality, and perspective of himself as a consummate dealmaker, would triumph where three previous presidents had neglected.
However, Mr. Trump’s offer was basically the same deal that the United States has pushed — and the North has rejected — for a quarter-century. Intelligence agencies had warned himpublicly, Mr. Kim wouldn’t be eager to give the arsenal up completely. North Korea itself had said that it would just move gradually.

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