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President Donald Trump's slapdash, on-again-off-again summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will hand the North Korean dictator a diplomatic coup that his father and grandfather never achieved. In North Korea's 70-year history, none of the ruling Kims have met with a sitting American president.
Becket Adams at the Washington Examiner pointed to the partisan nature of Trump foreign policy analysis by CNN correspondents who used to work for Barack Obama. His target? National security correspondent Jim Sciutto, who worked from 2011 to 2013 as chief of staff to Obama's ambassdor to China, Gary Locke.
Chinese telecommunications company ZTE "will be shut down" in the U.S. if it does anything to violate the terms of a new deal with the government, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro warned Sunday. "It's going to be three strikes you're out on ZTE," Navarro told Fox News.
During a manic appearance on CNN on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump's economic advisor Larry Kudlow frantically attacked Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, calling him "sophomoric" and a "back-stabber," while complaining his statement affirming Canadian trade policies after Trump left for his Singapore meet-up with North Korea's Kim Jong-un was designed to make look the president look weak.
The top White House economic adviser accused Canada's prime minister on Sunday of betraying President Donald Trump with "polarizing" statements on U.S. trade policy that risked making the American leader look weak on the eve of a historic summit with North Korea. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at the G7 Summit in the Charlevoix town of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 9, 2018.
Trump administration officials on Sunday accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stabbing President Trump in the back, blaming him for the president's refusal to endorse a joint statement with other world leaders. "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door," White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro said on Fox News Sunday .
President Donald Trump's decision to disavow a joint statement after the Group of Seven meeting was a response to negative and "sophomoric" comments by Canada's Justin Trudeau on the eve of a North Korea summit, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said. Trudeau "really kind of stabbed us in the back," Kudlow said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, calling on the Canadian to apologize to Trump.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the G-7 Working Session with Outreach Countries and International Organizations at the G-7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec on Saturday, June 9, 2018. LA MALBAIE, Quebec - The Latest on the trade fallout after the Group of Seven meeting in Canada : President Donald Trump's trade adviser says: "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door."
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks towards Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during their bilateral meeting at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana or presidential palace on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in Singapore.
Senate Armed Service Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham arrives for a meeting about immigration, Jan. 24, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. A leading Republican senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the U.S. has only two options with North Korea, "peace or war." Add North Korea as an interest to stay up to date on the latest North Korea news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Sign me up after Kim! Putin says he is happy to meet Trump whenever U.S. is ready to hold a summit - as Russian President greets Chinese counterpart during state visit to Beijing Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he's happy to meet with President Donald Trump once Washington is ready to hold the summit - after greeting his Chinese counterpart at a summit in China. Speaking to reporters in Qingdao, China, Putin said that some nations, including Austria, have offered to host his summit with Trump, should they have one.
Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump says he is ready to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010, file photo, released by China's Xinhua news agency, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, center, arrives at Pyongyang international airport in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.
China trade war on hold for now, but wait until Donald Trump has finished with the G7 and Kim Jong-un Washington is set to release details of its latest tariffs on Chinese imports on Friday, and that is likely to set off a whole new round of fireworks, observer says US agricultural negotiators were "pleasantly surprised" at what China offered during the latest trade talks, but an American business leader in Beijing said all bets could be off when Washington releases its new tariff list next week.
In Kim's attempt to unleash the economy and hold on to his dictatorship, he seems to be taking a lesson from China's Communist Party: change, or die. In the city of Pyongyang, the sanctum sanctorum of the Workers' Party of Korea, there are changes afoot that would have vexed Stalin.
I have no explanation for this sudden turn towards the left. Hopefully no explanation is needed: It's just a "blip," statistical noise, as often happens in polls.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said Friday that President Donald Trump "inherited a flawed strategy at best" on North Korea, but that he "knows what he's getting into." Zeldin said on Fox News' " America's Newsroom " on Friday that Trump "inherited a flawed strategy at best, you could say there was no strategy at all" regarding the "DIME" principle, which stands for diplomacy, information, military, economics, which guides U.S. policy.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen raises concerns that President Donald Trump will promise too much and pin too much on one meeting with North Korea's dictator, in terms of long-sought efforts for denuclearization. New Hampshire's senior senator spoke at length with Morning Edition host Rick Ganley about the negotiations set for next week in Singapore.
A meeting with Putin would seem to be a perfect next act for a President who has embraced personal diplomacy with American adversaries as the signature of his foreign policy. off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un , President Trump is pushing his team to arrange another dramatic one-on-one meeting, this time with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin , as soon as this summer.
President Trump won't be visiting any casinos in Singapore next week, but he will be pursuing the longest of long shots: Total denuclearization of North Korea. Few observers of a decades-long standoff between the United States and North Korea believe that Kim Jong Un will ever completely give up nuclear weapons, and that is probably Trump's biggest challenge when he meets with Kim next week in Singapore.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump spent a meeting at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters discussing a number of varying subjects - except the main subject he was there to discuss: hurricane season preparedness Details about what Trump discussed instead at the meeting were recorded in an audio obtained by The Washington Post , which included this paragraph that summarized the details: But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party's fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.