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President Donald Trump is publicly undercutting his secretary of state’s efforts to defuse tensions with North Korea, and ratcheting up the dialogue with a nuclear country led by a despot.
On Saturday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters during one of his visits to Beijing that the U. S. is talking to North Korea. On Sunday, Trump took to Twitter to say that Tillerson was wasting his time.
It is worth noting that, if the term « Rocket Man » referred only to Kim Jong Un, then Trump’s last tweet was factually incorrect. Kim Il Sung controlled North Korea until 1994, one year into Bill Clinton’s presidency, and after that the nation was controlled by Kim Jong Il until 2011 — through the rest of Clinton’s presidency, all of George W.
