President Trump stands next to a bust of late president Ho Chi Minh as he arrives for a meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Wednesday. “Vietnam is thriving,” said Trump, who was expected to sign bilateral trade deals with Vietnam. “A temporary pause of nuclear and missile tests is not the metric for whether North Korea is changing its behavior,” Murphy said. In 2017, as he sought to rally international pressure on the North, Trump had denounced the North as a “hell no person deserves,” but he has touted a personal rapport with Kim since their first summit. “The Democrats should stop talking about what I should do with North Korea and ask themselves instead why they didn’t do ‘it’ during eight years of the Obama Administration?” Trump wrote.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2019 06:11 UTC