Even more so than with other issues, Donald Trump’s approach to North Korea has been one of extremes: Threatening to destroy Kim Jong Un’s country one day, offering to meet up the next. On Tuesday, that strategy will be put to the test when he meets Kim for an historic first summit between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader. Trump’s making no guarantees about the tete-a-tete, vowing to walk away, if the two men can’t cut a deal.
Here’s a look at how Trump and Kim got to this high-stakes encounter: 2016 November: Days after Trump’s surprise election win, President Barack Obama’s administration warns the transition team that North Korea will likely be his top national security concern, according to the Wall Street Journal. January-March 2017 January: Kim boasts he’s in the “last stage” of preparations to test an inter-continental ballistic missile that can threaten the U.S. “It won’t happen!” Trump tweets.
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