Can Trump effectively negotiate with North Korea’s Kim, now that he says they’re «in love»?
To hear President Donald Trump speak about progress on getting North Korea to eliminate or reduce its ballistic and nuclear weapons programs, one would think that things are going quite well. If you ask South Korea, however, the situation is still quite…tense.
First, let’s take a look at the Trump administration’s perspective:
Despite not offering much in the way of detail while speaking about the process with Pyongyang at the U. N. Security Council last week, the president focused on his personal relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“Kim Jong-un, a man I have gotten to know and like, wants peace and prosperity for North Korea,” said Trump, of a man whose country he threatened to “totally destroy” exactly one year prior.
He then upped the ante at a Sept. 29 rally in West Virginia, where he told a cheering crowd that Kim had written him “beautiful letters” and that the two of them “fell in love. No, really,” said the president.
Really.
The South Koreans — who, it must be noted, have been steadily meeting with North Korea to reduce tensions at their border — are a little less smitten with Kim.
