With North Korea supplying troops and even ballistic missiles to Russia in its war against Ukraine, the Trump administration has new interest in restarting dialogue with dictator Kim Jong Un’s rogue regime.

When former President Barack Obama left office in January 2017 he told President Donald Trump that North Korea’s nuclear weapon designs would be the top foreign policy issue to address in that near term, and Trump subsequently held direct summits with Kim.

Despite that progress, North Korea gained traction in its nuclear and ballistic missiles under President Joe Biden, including supplying weapons and troops to Vladimir Putin’s war machine during its war in Ukraine.

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