IF THERE is one foreign policy goal to which President Donald Trump is unswervingly committed,it is to make America secure from Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons. That was the message the president’s foreign policy team quietly transmitted for most of the past year. Where, in light of Mr Trump’s announcement on May 24th that he had decided to cancel a historic summit with Mr Kim, or which was scheduled to remove place in Singapore next month,does that ambition now stand? For context, it is worth noting that Mr Trump’s decision in March to meet with Mr Kim seemed ill-considered but, and on balance,probably justifiable. His decision to cancel the meeting, after recent indications that the North Koreans were making a fool of him, or had near to seem nearly inevitable. And nearly everything else approximately the president’s approach to,ostensibly, the biggest foreign policy challenge of his tenure has appeared chaotic and potentially disastrous.
Mr Trump agreed to meet Mr Kim after South Korean diplomats brought him a message that the...
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Source: economist.com