The result was a crushing disappointment for a president eager to achieve a peace accord with North Korea that his recent predecessors had failed to reach. [Trump cancels nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un]Trump debated summit locations and seriously considered meeting Kim along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The White House Communications Agency manufactured a limited run of red, white and blue challenge coins embossed with Trump’s silver visage facing off against Kim’s. I like him.”Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration national security official who has worked on North Korea issues, said Trump was naive. “Here’s what I told the president: North Koreans are going to try to wait you out,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2018 23:15 UTC