Trump Confirms Plans for New Meeting With North Korea's Kim Jong-un

U.S. President Donald Trump, frustrated by a stalled war against Iran and eager to punish allies, is again turning to what he considers the glory moment of his first-term foreign policy: the failed nuclear negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Angry with a South Korean government he accuses of not helping resolve the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump now threatens a new rapprochement with Pyongyang's authoritarian regime that could shake the delicate geopolitical balances in the Asia-Pacific and, with them, those of the world. The American president is shaking the global board by confirming he is considering a meeting with the North Korean leader in November.

Trump's first campaign to achieve North Korea's denuclearization included three meetings between the Republican and the Kim dynasty heir between 2018 and 2019 — the only ones in history between a U.S. president and a North Korean supreme leader. They yielded no result Washington could boast of, beyond some vague promise.