Kim Jong Un
President Trump’s willingness to become the first U.S. president to meet with North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un is a “high-stakes opportunity” that came about because the president abandoned the policy of his predecessors, contends the chairman of a Senate panel overseeing security in East Asia.
“We’re in this position because President Trump rightfully abandoned strategic patience, the failed doctrine of the previous administration, and has moved toward a doctrine of maximum pressure,” said Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity, in a Fox News interview Friday.
Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.
“That pressure — Kim Jong Un is feeling it very much — is why we’re having this opportunity to talk,” Gardner said.
South Korean security adviser Chung Eui-Yong affirmed to Trump at the White House Thursday night “that his leadership and his