In February, then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson was informed by a North Korean envoy that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un wanted to meet with President Trump. Tillerson favored accepting the invitation quickly. Trump didn’t.
The president had been talking privately for months about a one-on-one session with Kim, a former administration official said. “North Korea is what he wanted to do.” But the president preferred to wait and make preparations, while not engaging the State Department and White House staffs.
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