But the situation has grown far more complex since Trump last teamed with a progressive South Korean president to foster negotiations with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
Kim has ordered an unprecedented deployment of troops to aid Russia amid its war with Ukraine, fortifying a landmark mutual defense treaty reached last year with Moscow, and has accelerated military developments, showing little sign of abandoning a nuclear arsenal that Pyongyang ties to its survival. At the same time, he has rejected overtures from Seoul and even dropped the goal of unification with South Korea as a national objective.
