President Donald Trump's chaotic brand of internation diplomacy was back on display Friday afternoon as he announced--following an Oval Office meeting with a high-ranking North Korean official--that a summit he cancelled earlier this month between the two countries is now back on track.
"We'll be meeting June 12 in Singapore. You people will have to be in Singapore," Trump told reporters at the White House after emerging from a more than hour-long meeting with North Korea's Kim Yong Chol, a chief negotiator and top aide to the nation's leader Kim Jong-Un.
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The North Korean diplomat, who had previously met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other State Department officials on Thursday, and during Friday's meeting at the White House hand-delivered a letter from Kim that was addressed to Trump.
But Trump said some very strange things, in fact, about the letter from Kim during his interaction with the reporters.
At first Trump described the letter as "very interesting" and asked how much anyone in the scrum might offer to pay to see its contents:
But just minutes later he very clearly admits to the same group of reporters that he has not even opened the letter yet:
As astute observers pointed out:
Despite Trump's ongoing and bizarre behavior when it comes to diplomacy with North Korea, anti-war voices and experts on the Korean peninsula voiced support for the announcement that the talks appeared to be back on track.