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The High Price of Trump’s Next North Korea Summit
The president’s eagerness to engage with a brutal regime undermines America’s moral authority in the rest of the world.
Is this really the message the U.S. wants to send?
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is already paying dividends. In his State of the Union address, he announced that his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would take place in Vietnam at the end of the month.
It’s understandable Trump would be in sales mode. All presidents tend to accentuate the positives and downplay the negatives of their foreign policy. But don’t be fooled. Trump is beginning to cave.
