I’m fascinated that pro-Trump people think his policy re North Korea was somehow good for the USA, when, in fact, it was a political and diplomatic coup for North Korea (which culminated, of course, in Kim Jong Un unveiling the country’s biggest ever inter-continental missile).
North Korean leaders had long sought the political legitimacy, prestige and leverage that public meetings with a US president would provide, and Trump fell for it, apparently believing that he had persuaded Kim to meet.
He treated the summit as some kind of victory in itself, whereas what it really demonstrated was that Kim’s strategy of developing and testing nuclear weapons had worked, and forced the most powerful hostile imperialist government (as North Koreans see it) to treat North Korea with respect.
The only concessions - reduced US involvement in protecting South Korea, essentially - came from Trump, undermining his own officials in the process, in return for vague (and rapidly u-turned) ‘promises’ about nuclear disarmament - the same pledges Kim’s gather and grandfather had made.
The main benefit of the meetings with Trump was helping North Korea repair its increasingly fractious relationships with China and Putin, a triumvirate which quite clearly does not have the USA’s best interests at its heart.
