North Korean saber-rattling dims euphoria of Trump's DMZ meeting
Nearly a month after President Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to walk on North Korean soil, the euphoria from his meeting with Kim Jong Un faded this week as North Korea fired off two short-range ballistic missiles, unveiled a high-tech submarine and rejected foreign food aid for millions of its impoverished citizens.
The primary accomplishment of Trump’s June 30 visit to the Korean border was an agreement to relaunch working-level talks in “two or three weeks,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time. But that time frame has come and gone, raising the question of whether Pyongyang’s truculent behavior represents an about-face on its commitment to hold talks or is simply a negotiating tactic ahead of the meetings.
North Korea’s pressure campaign began after it alleged that the United States broke an agreement made during the DMZ meeting to halt military exercises with South Korea. “Less than a month now since the DPRK-U.S. summit meeting in Panmunjom, the U.S. is going to resume joint military exercise which it directly committed to suspend at the highest level,” the North said in a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency this month.
“They really haven’t tested missiles other than, you know, smaller ones, which is something that lots of countries test,” Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox News on Thursday.
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Who would have known that dealing with a reclusive manipulative and cruel regime would be so complicated? Nobody knew. 
Trump is a joke. Utterly unprepared to do anything but be a puppet for wealthy right wingers and foreign adversaries who want to declaw the United States.
