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The Trump-Kim Summit Will Happen Soon or Later or Never

South Korea’s president comes to Washington to prop up diplomacy with North Korea.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Ahead of Moon Jae In’s meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday, a South Korean official his president’s trip to Washington would serve as “a bridge” between the United States and North Korea, so that Trump and Kim Jong Un can conduct successful nuclear negotiations when they meet in Singapore on June 12. This is the charitable view of the visit. The bleak interpretationleaping into Trump’s car instead to help direct the president before he can veer away from the bridge and over a cliff.

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