President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un for the first-ever meeting of a U.S. president and a dictator of North Korea. This meeting, if it happens, would be earth-shattering.
U.S. relations with North Korea are one of the most intractable and dangerous situations in the world. The potential negotiations between Kim and Trump would be monumental, especially in light of the legacies of the Korean War, seven decades of ruthless dictatorship by the Kim family and its threats of using nuclear weapons against the U.S. But would Trump’s negotiations be the right thing to do now?