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Change of Plans:  President Trump abruptly canceled his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a personal letter that displayed characteristically contradictory tones and Here’s While Trump cited an angry statement from North Korea as the immediate reason for his decision, that statement was prompted in part by a clash about denuclearization methods rooted in A senior White House official also described on North Korea’s part in the summit planning process. Now, David Frum writes, it’s Trump who is facing a foreign-policy reckoning—and

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