{"id":73652,"date":"2025-08-26T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea-summits-a-short-history"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:37:18","slug":"handshakes-and-hope-but-little-progress-a-short-history-of-trump-kim-summits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73652","title":{"rendered":"Handshakes and hope but little progress: a short history of Trump-Kim summits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encounters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solve one of the world\u2019s most implacable crises: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a>\u2019s continuing development of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>During an occasionally fractious meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lee-jae-myung\">Lee Jae Myung<\/a> in the White House on Monday, Trump did at least agree with South Korea\u2019s liberal president on the need to engage with the North\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea-summits-a-short-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encountersDonald Trump\u2019s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,421,40,554,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73653,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73652\/revisions\/73653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}