Trump team weighs talks with North Korean leader to ease tensions, report says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Despite that initial rhetoric, Trump and Kim made history the following year when they met in Singapore for the first-ever summit between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
50% : In a symbolic gesture, Trump briefly crossed into North Korea, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to do so.
45% : Four months later, Trump and Kim met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.
42% : A July 23 report by KCNA said Trump has "tried to reflect the special personal relations" between the two leaders but "the foreign policy of state and personal feelings must be strictly distinguished.
30% : Trump dismissed concerns over North Korea's launches, even after the regime fired two more short-range ballistic missiles on Aug. 2, 2019.
27% : During his first year in office in 2017, Trump warned the communist regime would be met with "fire and fury" if it continued to threaten the United States.
25% : "There may be a United Nations violation, but Chairman Kim does not want to disappoint me with a violation of trust ...," Trump wrote on social media the next day.

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