Despite criticism that he was overly friendly with Kim, Trump has defended his relationship with the North Korean dictator.
In 2019, Trump met with Kim and became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot into North Korea, one of the most closed nations in the world. Trump's friendliness toward Kim, a ruthless dictator, drew criticism, but he stood by his approach to North Korea for helping to maintain peace and move toward denuclearization.told him that North Korea and Kim were the"single biggest problem" the United States was facing as the White House was changing administrations.
"I have a great relationship with [Kim]," Trump said."We didn't have a war. It would have been a nuclear nightmare. It would have been a bad one." During Trump's first year in office, Kim tested a missile that had the potential to reach the U.S. for the first time. It prompted Trump to threaten him with"fire and fury like the world has never seen" and kicked off an insult war, with Trump calling Kim"rocket man." However, in the wake of tougher sanctions from theIn 2018, Kim became the first North Korean leader to meet with a sitting U.S. president, when he and Trump had a summit in Singapore.
Former President Donald Trump championed his relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Kim walks with Trump north of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone on June 30, 2019.However, his meeting with Kim and his continued praise over the years for the dictator came under critical scrutiny.
Two of those critics were the parents of Otto Warmbier, a college student who was arrested in North Korea and died shortly after being returned to the United States. Trump said during a 2019 summit that Kim was unaware of the torture Warmbier was put through while incarcerated in North Korea for 17 months.
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