In a June 14 commentary titled “Why does Donald Trump treat Iran differently to North Korea?” the Financial Times said “there is no consistency” in demands from Iran and North Korea by the Trump administration.

The commentator, Katrina Manson, say the Trump administration wants Tehran to abandon its missile program while Iran has “many enemies in the region, notably Israel and Saudi Arabia”, while North Korea has relations with neighbors China and South Korea.

According to the FT, scientists estimate Pyongyang has dozens of nuclear warheads and long-range ballistic missiles that could theoretically reach U.S. soil, and much of the program remains shrouded in secrecy but Iran “has not developed nuclear weapons, has capped its enrichment facilities and accepts international inspections.”

It added, Iran’s “ballistic missiles have a maximum range of 2,000km and it has no known plans to develop intercontinental missiles”.

According to the London-based newspaper, a person familiar with the Trump-Kim summit preparations said, “Iran was always going to be a bad guy, it was never going to be a U.S. ally. But the aim with North Korea is much bigger: to go from bad guy to good guy.”