The historic event — well-promoted and dramatically staged for the television-conscious president — comes just as Trump launches his reelection bid
SEOUL, South Korea — In 2017, President Donald Trump secretly planned to walk right up to the North Korean border to show Kim Jong Un that America would stand up to his brutal regime.
On Sunday, 18 months after that first attempt to visit the Korean border — ultimately canceled because Trump's helicopter could not fly in the poor weather — the president finally got the made-for-TV moment he desired.Sign Up Jung Pak, a former officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she led the U.S. intelligence community’s analysis on Korean Peninsula issues, said a DMZ visit appeals to both Trump’s vanity and desire to be a hero.
Trump, a senior administration official said, "feels that he has a relationship that will allow the door to remain open." “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump said at the time. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”to the DMZ to mark the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election. He and his team began the trek to the DMZ by helicopter only to turn back five minutes before landing because of low visibility. After waiting for nearly an hour to see if the weather would clear, the trip was canceled.
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