Daily Extra – Kim Jong and Trump: From insult to mutual praise in 2 years

Seoul (EFE) .- President of the United States Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un celebrate his second summit in Hanoi (Vietnam) to discuss denuclearization and try to strengthen a relationship that Is established in two years from the exchange of insults and threats to the exchange of praise and personal letters.

2017

January 20: Donald Trump arrives at the White House. Persistent short and medium-range North Korean missile testing over the next six months has resulted in escalating threats between Washington and Piongyang.

July 4: North Korea successfully launches its first ICBM, the Hwasong-14, and performs another successful test on July 28th.

August 8: Trump threatens North Korea to react with "fire and fury". Two days later, North Korea announced plans to bomb the suburbs of Guam, home to major US bases.

September 3: North Korea carries out its sixth – and until the most powerful date – a nuclear test and ensures that the H bomb that exploded can be equipped with a missile.

September 17: Trump calls Kim "Rocket Man" on Twitter in response to the launch of new missiles.

September 19: Trump threatens to "totally destroy North Korea" in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

September 21: In a note from the KCNA government agency, Kim calls Trump "an old fool".

November 12: Trump tweet: "Why does Kim Jong insult me ​​by calling me" old "when I will NEVER call him" fat and short "? I'm trying really to make me his friend, and maybe one day it will happen! " .

November 28: The regime triggers the one that to this day is its most sophisticated ICBM, the Hwasong 15, and ensures that it is already a "nuclear state" capable of attacking the United States with an atomic bomb .

2018

March 8: After the two Koreas approached the Winter Olympics and convened a summit, Kim invited Trump to meet him in a letter delivered to Washington by a Seoul envoy. That same day, Trump agrees to hold the meeting.

April 21: North Korea announces the suspension of its nuclear tests and missiles and the closure of its atomic testing center.

April 27: Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in celebrate the first inter-Korean summit in 11 years and agree to work for the peace and denuclearization of the peninsula.

May 10: Trump reveals that the summit with Kim will take place on June 12 in Singapore.

May 24: After severe criticism of Pionyang against the Trump government alluding to the Libyan model of denuclearization, the US president abruptly cancels the summit with Kim, although the next day Washington and the regime soften and show the willingness to reopen the dialogue.

May 26: The leaders of the two Koreas celebrate their second meeting in secret and by surprise in just one month to improve their relations and try to save the Singapore summit.

May 30: North Korean intelligence chief Kim Yong-chol travels to the United States, where he is received at the White House by Trump, who confirms that the summit continues until June 12 .

June 12: Trump and Kim are in the party at the first summit of history between the United States and North Korea. They pledge to strengthen ties and "work for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula", while Washington agrees to offer "security guarantees" for the regime's survival. Trump thanks Kim for his participation in the summit and boasts that he has been "great" with him and that both have an "excellent relationship".

June 22: The United States postpones the exercises "indefinitely" with South Korea to promote dialogue.

July 5-7: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo travels to Pyonyang to work out a roadmap for North Korean denuclearization. Upon his departure, the North Korean Foreign Ministry described as "unfortunate" the attitude of the United States during the talks.

July 12: Trump publishes a letter from Kim Jong-un on social networks and boasts of a "breakthrough" in dialogue.

July 24: Satellite images show that North Korea has begun to dismantle one of its missile test bases.

September 10: The White House claims that the North Korean leader has asked by letter to maintain a new summit with President Trump and that they have already begun to coordinate.

18-20 September: Moon and Kim celebrate a summit in Pyongyang, in which the North Korean leader insists on his commitment to denuclearization and ensures that he can "permanently dismantle the center where he will produce his atomic fuel. if the United States applies measures ". corresponding ".

October 7: Pompeo meets Kim in Pyongyang and declares that progress has been made in the area of ​​disarmament and that both spoke of holding "as soon as possible" a second summit.

November 7: A view of Pompeo in North Korea is abruptly canceled, evidence of the conflict that exists in the dialogue on denuclearization in the absence of a road map.

2019

January 2: Trump says he received a letter from Kim Jong-un and insists that both have established "a great relationship".

January 8: Kim makes an official visit to China during which he meets with President Xi Jinping, to whom he badures that he remains committed to denuclearization.

January 17: Kim Yong-chol goes to the United States to close the summit call.

February 5: In his State of the Union address, Trump announces that there will be a second summit with Kim and that it will be held in Vietnam on February 27 and 28

February 6: US Special Envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun travels to Pyongyang to close the details of the summit.

February 9: Trump announces by Twitter that the summit will be held in Hanoi and ensures that "North Korea, under the mandate of Kim Jong-un, will become a great economic power.This may surprise some, but not me, because I know him and know how competent he is. "

February 18: North Korean propaganda is silent on the summit but ensures that the country is "at a decisive moment" in terms of economic development.