Trump Should Drop Ban on Travel to North Korea

Foreign Affairs The small move could help open diplomacy with Pyongyang. One of President Donald Trump’s few successful diplomatic initiatives during his first term was meeting North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Trump’s move shocked the “Blob,” as the foreign policy establishment has been called. However, it represented a welcome alternative approach after Washington’s decades-long, failed effort to suffocate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Unfortunately, Trump’s own effort crashed and burned after the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit. Blame for that result was much debated. Afterwards, Pyongyang abandoned engagement with both the United States and the Republic of Korea. And after that, the Ukraine War dramatically transformed the DPRK’s regional status: Russia’s compens