Donald Trump’s Korea Diplomacy Is a Distraction Exercise

Donald Trump has made several recent overtures to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a new summit, seven years after their meeting in Hanoi ended inconclusively. Over the summer, he abruptly reduced the scale of the annual US–South Korea joint military exercises. Four times in the space of nine days, he posted pictures of Kim on his Truth Social account in an apparent wooing exercise. These efforts have so far failed to lure Kim to the negotiation table. Kim Yo-jong, his powerful sister who…