Tag: kim jong-un
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un continues to fire off rockets and manipulate Donald Trump, achieving an historic humiliation for the United States.
The world gagged when Ivanka Trump -- a would-be stateswoman -- tagged along on her father's North Korea trip. But don't expect that to discourage her.
Polls show Biden beating Trump like a gong in 2020 -- as Noah notes -- which clearly provoked the president's latest outburst of juvenile name-calling.
Now Trump is discovering that bluster and bombast don't work with Iran, and craven appeasement doesn't work with North Korea.
Whenever Trump is sucking up to the authoritarian rulers he admires -- Putin, Kim, MBS -- it's not hard to imagine them laughing behind his back.
Unlike Shanahan, Trump was unperturbed by North Korea's first missile tests since 2017, downplaying them as "some small weapons."
"Kim is playing the president," said Rep. Gregory Meeks, who sits on the foreign affairs committee. "So he’s already gotten what he wanted.”
Mnuchin said ‘full implementation’ of UN sanctions is 'crucial' to success of Trump's North Korea policy. Then Trump abruptly cancelled those sanctions.
Reports of the rebuilt missile site are humiliating for Trump, given that he failed to achieve anything at the Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un.
Not everyone was charmed by Donald Trump's exuberant expression of mutual affection for the bloody young dictator.
