Embarrassment for Kim Jong-un: How Donald Trump allowed North Korea to become its dictator. Kim wanted to negotiate with Trump on an equal footing, while the US President was looking for a quick deal.
Kim began to attract attention in other ways: instead of diplomacy, he began using threatening military gestures. The result: North Korea is a long way from denuclearization, as Trump had sought. Several experts even expect that Kim Kim could order a nuclear bomb test this year for the first time since 2017.