Unexpected collapse of talks with N. Korea a setback for Trump, who invested more than a year cultivating a friendship with Kim
By Josh Dawsey and Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Philip Rucker Philip Rucker White House Bureau Chief Email Bio Follow February 28 at 8:59 AM HANOI — President Trump flew for 20 hours to this bustling Vietnamese capital determined to earn a place in history as the American statesman whose personal charm overcame decades of intransigence and erased the North Korean nuclear threat.
“Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times,” Trump told reporters at a news conference before flying home to Washington.The unexpected collapse of talks here was a setback for a president who has invested more than a year in cultivating a friendship with Kim — in so doing holding his tongue on Kim’s record of brutality and human rights abuses — and whose signature foreign policy aim has been his unconventional strategy for denuclearizing North Korea.
“It exposed Trump’s overreliance on personal relationships and it highlighted his tendency to badly under prepare,” said Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Trump appeared chastened and unusually subdued in his 37-minute news conference here, a marked contrast to the celebratory and freewheeling postgame show he staged in Singapore last summer at the conclusion of his historic first summit with Kim.
Trump considers Pompeo his favorite Cabinet member, according to current and former administration officials, who say the secretary of state has a special touch in handling the president. Trump said that Pompeo was opposed to the deal from the North Koreans. “He lied a lot, but it was very interesting because he didn’t lie about one thing, he said no collusion with the Russian hoax,” Trump said. “And I said, ‘I wonder why he didn’t lie about that, too, like he did about everything else? I was actually impressed.”
Even as they disagreed on North Korea’s nuclear future, Trump showered praise on Kim. He called the millennial dictator “my friend” and gushed about his leadership and intelligence. They took friendly strolls on the grounds of the luxurious Metropole hotel here and bantered over a dinner Wednesday night of grilled sirloin and chocolate lava cake.
Yun added, “Trump is beginning to realize that North Korea’s not going to completely denuclearize, not now and probably not ever.”
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