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When Kim Jong Un Helped Make History and Was Left Disappointed

The US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shocked the world in 2018 when they met in Singapore for the first ever US-North Korea leadership summit. The two leaders met two more times in 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam, and at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom, Korea.

The 2018 summit between the US and North Korea was a remarkable turn of events. The world was on pins and needles beforehand, waiting to see if the long peace that endured for seven decades on the Korean Peninsula would come to an end, as President Trump and Kim traded insults amidst escalating military tensions. When the North launched ballistic missiles, President Trump called Kim Jong Un the “Little Rocket Man.” Next, North Korea referred to Trump as a “dotard” – a medieval English phrase for imbecile.

Since China, North Korea, South Korea, and the United States signed the Armistice agreement to end the Korean War in July 1953, rising tensions, periodic episodes of violence, and the constant threat of war have ebbed and flowed for decades. Since then, the tit-for-tat between Pyongyang and Washington has become predictable for international observers. North Korea would threaten