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Presidential Diplomacy 101

Key moments from Donald Trump’s first 16 months as President reveal his foreign policy playbook.

Michael C. Bender

Wall Street Journal

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana in Singapore June 10, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su - RC171544FB30

Face off down to nitty-gritty

Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un yesterday tried to set the groundwork for a high-stakes summit.

Jonathan Cheng and Andrew Jeong

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‘One-shot chance for peace’

Donald Trump has declared he and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un have a “one-time shot’’ at changing the course of history tomorrow.

Cameron Stewart

Wall Street Journal

(FILES) This file picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken on May 8, 2018 and released on May 9 shows China's President Xi Jinping (R) walking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Chinese city of Dalian. Dubbed a

Kim takes to world stage

The North Korean leader seizes his moment ahead of Trump summit.

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FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2018, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers his New Year's speech at an undisclosed place in North Korea. After an unusually provocative year during which North Korea tests a purported thermonuclear warhead and three intercontinental ballistic missiles, Kim tries to initiate diplomacy in his annual New Yearâ€™s address. He calls for improved relations and engagement with South Korea, though adds that he has a nuclear button on his desk. Trump responds that he has a bigger and more powerful nuclear button,

Summit is all upside for Trump

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was in an apparent panic to resurrect tomorrow’s summit with Donald Trump.

Holman W. Jenkins and Jr.

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FILE - In this June 9, 2018, file photo, Singapore police officers patrol the grounds around the St. Regis Hotel as traffic policemen start to barricade the roads surrounding it, in Singapore ahead of the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kim is on a rare trip abroad as he leaves the all-encompassing bubble of his locked-down stronghold of Pyongyang and steps off a jet onto Singaporean soil for his planned sit-down with Trump on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Security laid on thick for Kim

Security for Kim Jong-un at his first meeting with Donald Trump tomorrow is expected to be ultra-tight.

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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have landed in Singapore.

Trump joins Kim in Singapore

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have landed in Singapore ahead of Tuesday’s summit.

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FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, the country's late founder Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

What could possibly go wrong?

At their history-making summit, Donald Trump has three big carrots to dangle in front of Kim Jong-un.

Cameron Stewart

The World

US President Donald Trump speaks as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm

Trump: I’ll invite Kim to the US

Donald Trump will normalise relations with North Korea and invite Kim Jong-un to the White House if he denuclearises.

Cameron Stewart

The World

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) greets French President Emmanuel Macron (R) as he arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, 06 June 2018. Macron is on a two-day visit to Ottawa and Montreal before attending the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec on 08 and 09 June. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Ian LANGSDON

Trump to fight world on trade

A defiant Donald Trump will confront angry world leaders at a fiery G7 summit tomorrow.

Cameron Stewart

The World

This combination of the May 26, 2018 provided May 27, 2018, by South Korea Presidential Blue House via Yonhap News Agency, shows South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, during their meeting at the northern side of the Panmunjom in North Korea. Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Saturday, May 26, for the second time in a month, exchanging a huge bear hug and broad smiles in a surprise summit at a border village to discuss Kim's potential meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and ways to follow through on the peace initiatives of the rivals' earlier summit. (South Korea Presidential Blue House/Yonhap via AP)

Kim ‘begged Trump on his knees’

Rudy Giuliani claims Kim Jong-un got “on his hands and knees and begged” after Donald Trump cancelled their summit.

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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves Federal District Court, in Washington. Prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller are accusing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of making several attempts to tamper with witnesses in his ongoing criminal cases. Muellerâ€™s team says in a new court filing that Manafort and one of his associates made several attempts to contact two witnesses in an effort to influence their testimony while he was on house arrest earlier this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Manafort accused over witnesses

Robert Mueller’s team accuses Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort of attempted witness tampering.

Aruna Viswanatha

National Affairs

US President Donald Trump looks on during a Change of Command ceremony as Admiral Karl Schultz takes over from Admiral Paul Zukunft as the Commandant of the US Coast Guard at US Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC, June 1, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Key trade allies turn on Trump

Donald Trump has been accused by America’s closest allies of undermining the global trading system.

CAMERON STEWART Washington Correspondent

Foreign Affairs

Image ©Licensed to i-Images Picture Agency. 23/04/2018. London, United Kingdom. The Australian High Commissioner to The UK Alexander Downer pictured in his office at the High Commission of Australia in London, UK.Picture by Ben Stevens / i-Images

Downer ‘told first’ of Hillary dirt

Alexander Downer has signalled he stuck with protocol in the face of a news report challenging his version of events.

Brad Norington

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the crowd at a Liberal fundraiser in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Thursday, May 31, 2018. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Allies pledge swift tariff revenge

A global trade war has erupted as America’s allies pledge sweeping retaliatory tariffs against the US.

Cameron Stewart

The World

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: North Korean envoy Kim Yong-chol enters a lobby to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for talks on nuclear disarmament on May 31, 2018 in New York City. Both Pompeo and Kim are trying to salvage a recently canceled historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on nuclear disarmament. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Kim’s special delivery for Trump

US President Donald Trump will today welcome former North Korean spymaster Kim Yong-chol to Washington.

Cameron Stewart

The World

TOPSHOT - North Korea Vice-Chairman Kim Yong-chol meets with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 31, 2018 in New York. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resumed talks in New York on Thursday with a top North Korean official as the pair work to salvage next month's nuclear summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, an AFP journalist on the scene said.Kim Yong Chol, considered the North Korean leader's right-hand man, is the most senior official from Pyongyang to visit the United States in 18 years. / AFP PHOTO / Bryan R. Smith

Summit hangs on Kim letter

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says negotiations are ‘moving in the right direction’ with North Korea.

Cameron Stewart

The World

FILE - In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, where he said he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump ramps up Mueller attack

The President’s attack on Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is part of a campaign to escalate pressure on the Mueller investigation.

Cameron Stewart

The World

This handout photograph obtained courtesy of the US Department of State shows Kim Yong Chol (R), Vice Chairman of North Korea, during his dinner meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) on May 30, 2018 in New York. The North Korean senior official arrived in New York earlier on May 30, 2018 for talks on salvaging a summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. / AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND US Department of State / HO / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Frantic bid to salvage summit

A senior North Korean official and America’s top diplomat had dinner in New York yesterday.

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FILE - In this May 24, 2018, file photo, People watch a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. Kim Yong Chol, a top lieutenant of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in the United States to conduct one of three sets of parallel talks aimed at salvaging a summit between Kim and President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Kim burgers up Trump summit

North Korea is reportedly stalling over plans to give up its nuclear weapons but has a novel suggestion instead.

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ABC ‘never said sorry to me’

After staying silent about cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s sitcom over her racist tweet, Donald Trump makes it all about him.

Cameron Stewart

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(FILES) In a file picture taken on December 13, 2007, North Korea's chief delegate Kim Yong Chol (C) and North Korean soldiers cross the border which divides the two Koreas to attend the inter-Korean general talks at the south side of the truce village of Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). US President Donald Trump confirmed on May 29, 2018, that a senior North Korean official is headed to New York for talks as preparations for his historic summit with Kim Jong Un gather pace.

Stalinist spy or statesman?

The US and North Korea are both striving hard to put the cancelled summit back on the agenda.

Cameron Stewart

The World

PUNGGYE-RI, NORTH KOREA - MAY 24: (SOUTH KOREA OUT) In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, a North Korean soldier stands at the entrance to a tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site on May 24, 2018 in Punggye-ri, North Korea. North Korea dismantled their nuclear testing facility at Punggye-ri in front of the international media. (Photo by News1-Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images)

N Korea works to revive summit

Kim Jong-un is willing to meet Donald Trump at any time as he tries to revive a leader’s summit after the President cancelled it.

Cameron Stewart

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PUNGGYE-RI, NORTH KOREA - MAY 24: (SOUTH KOREA OUT) In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, the Punggye-ri nuclear test site is demolished on May 24, 2018 in Punggye-ri, North Korea. North Korea dismantled their nuclear testing facility at Punggye-ri in front of the international media. (Photo by News1-Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images)

Blown bridges can be rebuilt

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have left the door open to a summit, perhaps even in the near future.

Cameron Stewart

The World

FILE- In this combination of file photos, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 16, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a meeting with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, South Korea, on April 27, 2018. Foreign journalists will get the chance to journey deep into the mountains of North Korea this week to observe the closing of the countryâ€™s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a much-touted display of goodwill ahead of leader Kim Jong Unâ€™s planned summit with President Donald Trump in June, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Kim ‘still willing to meet’

North Korea has responded to Donald Trump’s decision to cancel his summit with Kim Jong-un.

Cameron Stewart and Primrose Riordan

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US President Donald Trump shows the posthumous pardon for former world champion boxer Jack Johnson after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2018. (Shown L-R)world champion heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder, Trump, Keith Frankel, CEO of VitaQuest International, Stallone and former boxer Lennox Lewis. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

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Trump leaves door open for Kim

Careful wording of Donald Trump’s summit cancellation tells Kim Jong-un to grow up and go away until he’s ready to deal.

Cameron Stewart

Wall Street Journal

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, May 22, 2018. Donald Trump welcomed South Korea's president to the White House Tuesday, a high stakes and potentially testy meeting that could decide whether the US leader's much-vaunted summit with Kim Jong Un goes ahead. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Kim summit ‘may not happen’

Donald Trump admits the planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ‘may not work out’.

Michael Bender

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Trump: ‘N Korea talks may not work out’

AS US President Donald Trump welcomed South Korea’s president to the White House, he cast doubt over a planned June summit with Kim Jong-un.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

Trump tries to keep Kim on track

Donald Trump has promised North Korea will become rich under Kim Jong-un if it agrees to a nuclear deal with the US.

Cameron Stewart

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