The White House has just announced that it has scheduled a second summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un.
The second summit will occur sometime in late February, which is just over a month from now:
BREAKING: White House says Trump to hold second summit in late February with Kim Jong-Un, seeking end to North Korea's nuclear weapons program. https://t.co/0M3hoaYMai
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2019
President Donald Trump is to hold a second summit with the leader of North Korea near the end of February to try to coax the North to give up its nuclear program.
The announcement came at the White House Friday after Trump met with a North Korean envoy.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump met for 90 minutes with Kim Yong Chol to discuss denuclearization and a second summit. She said the president looks forward to meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a place to be announced at a later date.
Trump had his first, historic meeting with Kim Jong Un last June in Singapore and reached a vague denuclearization agreement, but little tangible progress has been made since. So far, no details have been publicly released about how denuclearization could occur.
Tis a lesson you should heed:
Try, try, try again.
If at first you don’t succeed,
Try, try, try again.
I’m not sure that proverb necessarily applies here, but it appears to be how Trump feels he should move forward on this denuclearization deal.
With little progress made toward denuclearization thus far – which always seemed like a pipe dream to many of us – I’m honestly not sure why Trump is giving Kim a second summit. You’d think that would only happen if Kim had made what could be deemed as significant progress toward the goal.
So if the first summit didn’t work, what makes Trump think a second summit will work? Or does he not realize that Kim may just be exploiting these summits for world fame in order to push his own agendas, both in and outside of his country.