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    Kim Jong Un Was Likely Planning To Approach Trump 'All Along,' Scholar Says

    Mar 09, 2018 3 minutes
    People watch a television news report showing pictures of President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on March 9, 2018. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images)

    President Trump agreed Thursday to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for direct negotiations about that country’s nuclear program.

    Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson discusses the news with Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, who says Kim was likely planning the meeting “all along.”

    “After that yearlong banner ballistic year that Kim Jong Un had in

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