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Trump Needs To Be 'In Lockstep' with South Korea When Meeting with North Korea's Leader

| Mar. 09, 2018

Trump needs to be 'in lockstep' with South Korea when meeting with North Korea's leader from CNBC.

President Donald Trump was able to back North Korean leader Kim Jong Un into a corner with tough military talk and deft diplomacy, former Ambassador Nicholas Burns told CNBC on Friday.

Trump accepted an invitation late Thursday to meet with Kim for nuclear talks by May.

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For Academic Citation: “Trump Needs To Be 'In Lockstep' with South Korea When Meeting with North Korea's Leader.” CNBC, March 9, 2018.

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Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns

  • United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
  • Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Faculty Chair, Future of Diplomacy Project
  • Faculty Chair, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship
  • Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
  • Director, American Secretaries of State Project
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