Samuel Martin - Trump Heads Abroad for North Korea Talks

Domestic Distractions Persist as Trump Heads Abroad for North Korea Talks

Summary
President Trump is meeting with the dictator Kim Jong-un this week at a summit in Vietnam to try to persuade the leader of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons. Trump thinks that if the country completely denuclearizes itself it will prosper economically and politically and end the Korean war. Some reporters believe that the US might be working with North Korea on a joint statement to end the war, while others think that this is a ploy to get Jong-un to destroy the nuclear warheads. Critics are worried that President Trump is giving too much (the retreat of troops from South Korea) in exchange for very little (the "promise" that the country will denuclearize). Even though the president is leaving the country, it is extremely likely that he will be bugged with domestic issues including the border wall, which will be voted upon on Tuesday. This could lead to Trump's first presidential veto, and his first veto while he is on foreign soil.

Analysis
This article was written on Monday, February 25, 2019 in Washington D.C. This means that the author was close to the source location and this written on the same day as Trump made the comments and left for the summit in Vietnam. I already knew that we want to get North Korea denuclearized, but I didn't know that there was an effort right now with all of the domestic problems that we have. This relates to June of 2018, when the president first met and shook hands (a momentous occasion) with Kim Jong-un and talked about beginning denuclearization. The audience of this is all of the US because we need to be aware of the domestic issues going on even though our president is dealing with foreign issues at the moment. The author is Michael D. Shear, who is a White House Correspondent for the NYTimes. The article was written to inform the country about the president's thoughts about Korean denuclearization as well as its benefits. This is important because even though we may not like or agree with our president, we still have to listen to what he thinks because like it or not he is our leader.

Source
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/politics/vietnam-summit-trump-kim.html