Victor Cha was nominated to become Trump's ambassador to South Korea but was dropped after warning the White House against a pre-emptive strike on the North.
A former nominee to become the U.S. ambassador to South Korea has warned that President Donald Trump's North Korea strategy is not working, and that the president is being outmatched by dictator Kim Jong Un.
But relations between the adversaries soon thawed, and by June 2018 the two leaders were sitting down in Singapore for the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.as historic achievementsBut for all the warm words and smiling photographs, little of substance has been achieved. Talks on denuclearization and sanctions relief haveThe North is
But Cha suggested the relationship between Trump and Kim is a"terrible mismatch," which is evidenced by"The president deserves credit for really trying something outside the box with North Korea, because we have never done these summits before," Cha said."But we've now had three meetings between the leaders, and they've achieved absolutely nothing in terms of denuclearization.
Opponents of engagement with Kim warned that a bilateral meeting with the young dictator would give him a priceless propaganda victory at home and help legitimize his authoritarian rule over the underdeveloped nation.
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