
S3 Episode 10 - "The Host"
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Trump's Diplomacy Was Not Having These Meetings Before Donald Trump Started Calling
Some in the Democratic Party, particularly those who were planning on or already running for president, savaged the diplomatic push by the Trump administration. The Biden campaign called Trump's diplomacy, quote, coddling dictators at the expense of American national security and interests. By July 2020, not long before Trump was voted out of office, the North Koreans were reportedly down on any more Trump-Kim meetings unless the Americans changed their approach. From Choseung-hund in the New York Times in March 2020, North Korea said on Monday that it had lost all appetite for dialogue with the United States. Because of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's continuous pressure on the country to give up its nuclear