Big Moment, Big Progress

Dr. Munr Kazmir
4 min readJul 2, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump visits North Korea. Is this the beginning of the end for North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un?

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Jong Un, makes history Sunday, June 30, 2019, as he becomes the first sitting U.S. President to step foot on North Korean soil, in his meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

It was a move that sent both administrations scrambling.

It was a far cry from the usual meticulously planned and executed meeting of two heads of state; one of whom the leader of a nationalistic isolationist state with nuclear ambitions and delusions of grandeur, the other one…

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