As President Donald Trump danced on the tarmac in Malaysia, met Japan’s emperor in Tokyo, and accepted a gold crown in South Korea, one key question kept following him – would he hold a surprise meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?
On several occasions Trump made public overtures that he’d “love” to meet Kim while in the region. It could have been a made-for-TV sequel to his surprise 2019 visit at the demilitarized zone (DMZ), when Trump made history as the first sitting US president to step foot on North Korean soil.
In the end it never came together. And in Pyongyang, just a few hundred miles away, it was like Trump’s trip never happened.
There were no headlines. No television news reports. No mention of the US president’s offer to “work very hard with Kim Jong Un” to bring peace to the Korean peninsula. Even as Trump’s entourage rolled through Asia and speculation swirled about a possible reunion between the two leaders, North Korean state media stayed silent.
American filmmaker and manager at Young Pioneer Tours Justin Martell just returned from an eight-day trip to Pyongyang, where he was attending an international film festival that happened to coincide with much of Trump’s Asia trip.
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