Many people have speculated about why President Donald Trump appears eager to develop a close relationship with Vladimir Putin's Russia. Adam Entous, a Washington, D.C. based reporter for The New Yorker, has done deep reporting that provides new fodder for why Trump is attempting to reverse decades of U.S. foreign policy...
Putin, Trump Will Hold Summit in Helsinki on July 16
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a summit in Helsinki on July 16, a long-expected encounter that comes amid spiraling tensions between Moscow and Washington. A terse synchronized statement issued by the Kremlin and the White House said Putin and Trump will discuss...
Poll: Majority Approve of Trump's North Korea Effort
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans now approve of President Donald Trump's handling of U.S. relations with North Korea, a change that comes after his historic summit with that country's leader, Kim Jong Un. But most don't believe Kim is serious about addressing the international concerns about his country's nuclear...
Zakaria: North Korea Summit Was Big Win for China
The cancellation of U.S. military exercises with South Korea is one of several troubling outcomes of President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, writes Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. The headline from the summit in Singapore earlier this month, in which Trump described the exercises as "provocative,"...
Little to Show for U.S. From North Korea Summit
SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un wound up in a victory of style and image over real substance. Trump, hours after his historic meeting with Kim, defended the vague final declaration in a show of bluff and bluster in which he sought to make...
Read Text of Historic Joint Statement Signed By Trump and Kim
Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of...
Trump Cancels Summit, Citing 'Open Hostility' by North Korea
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic diplomatic turn, President Donald Trump on Thursday called off next month's summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, calling the cancellation a "tremendous setback" for peace and stressing that the US military was ready to respond to any "foolish or reckless acts" by the North....
Zakaria: Trust is Loser in Trump Foreign Policy Gambits
President Donald Trump's bombastic foreign policy rhetoric is, to some, a needed departure from the "conventional" approach followed by his predecessors. But as Fareed Zakaria counters in his March 29 article in The Washington Post, the integrity of the United States is being diminished by Trump's shoot-from-the-hip style. "American presidents...
Trump and North Korea Shock the World. What's Next?
SEOUL — President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un shocked Americans and Koreans alike with their agreement to meet at a summit and go over the whole issue of denuclearization of North Korea, confrontation between North Korea and the United States, and North-South confrontation. The questions now are,...