MaddowBlog: Two years later, North Korea says Trump's policy is a failure
North Korea said it was pulling away from its relationship with the U.S. two years after a historic handshake between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore, saying there had been no actual improvement in ties.
"Never again will we provide the U.S. chief executive with another package to be used for achievements without receiving any returns," North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon told the country's state-run media."Nothing is more hypocritical than an empty promise.","Even a slim ray of optimism for peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula has faded away into a dark nightmare.
To be sure, Pyongyang has earned a reputation for making announcements like these to get attention, and it's generally best to see North Korea's provocative statements through the lens of a country with a clumsy and needlessly belligerent diplomatic strategy. Nevertheless, this continues to be one of Trump's most glaring foreign-policy failures. For reasons he's never been able to fully explain, he gambled on a curious strategy in which he'd make a series of bold concessions to an adversary, in exchange for nothing., the Republican gave the North Korean leader the bilateral talks he wanted. And the international legitimacy he wanted. And the cessation of military exercises he wanted. And the public praise he wanted.
And while the American president delivered these enticements to his friend in Pyongyang -- a man Trump has said he"
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