(National Public Radio) — “In diplomacy, it comes with incredible risk to subject a principal to a one-on-one meeting where results aren’t guaranteed — or at least close. Typically, spade work is done by lower-level experts for months, if not years.”
President Trump certainly has a flair for the dramatic.
The announcement Thursday night that the president of the United States had accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un shocked the world.
That is the kind of phrase that is overused — in politics and sports, in particular — but it’s appropriate in this case.
“This is quite extraordinary,” former U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill told NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on All Things Considered on Thursday night. Hill represented the U.S. in multilateral talks with North Korea during the George W. Bush administration.
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