Security Steps Back,” Daily NK, July 31, 2014.
Whether emboldened by: Jesse Johnson, “Holy Smokes: South Korean Envoy Reportedly Told Kim to Kick Cigarette Habit,” The Japan Times, April 9, 2018.
Instead, lovely Ri: Ibid.
The South China Morning Post: Yujing Liu, “Kim Jong-un Wife’s Fashion Sense a Hit with China’s Public,” SCMP, March 28, 2018.
On Weibo, one of China’s biggest: Christina Zhao, “Kim Jong Un Wife’s Stylish Fashion Sense Is a Hit in China,” Newsweek, March 28, 2018.
Another post compared her: Liu, “Kim Jong-un Wife’s Fashion Sense.”
Ri also garnered favorable attention: Jung Da-min, “Two Former Singers Hit Right Note in Pyongyang,” The Korea Times, September 18, 2018.
The couple have at least one: Tom O’Connor, “Who Are Kim Jong Un’s Children and Does North Korea Have an Heir?,” Newsweek, December 30, 2017.
FIFTEEN: WHEN TRUMP MET KIM
When Trump, who had once dreamed: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 53.
Trump’s biographers: Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 352.
There was a triumphant: Carol Morello, Anna Fifield, and David Nakamura, “North Korea Frees 3 American Prisoners Ahead of a Planned Trump-Kim Summit,” WP, May 9, 2018.
Trump tweeted on April 30: @realDonaldTrump, April 30, 2018, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/990928644100034561.
A Pew Research Center poll: Pew Research Center, “Public Supports U.S. Talks with North Korea; Many Doubt Whether Its Leaders Are ‘Serious,’ ” May 10, 2018, http://www.people-press.org/2018/05/10/public-supports-u-s-talks-with-north-korea-many-doubt-whether-its-leaders-are-serious/.
A CNN poll that was taken: Grace Sparks and Jennifer Agiesta, “CNN Poll: Three-Quarters Approve of Trump’s Plans to Meet with Kim Jong Un,” CNN, May 10, 2018.
South Koreans also: Jessica Kwong, “Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Approval Ratings Reach Highest Ever Marks in South Korea, Poll Finds,” Newsweek, June 2, 2018.
For Trump, his decision: Ryan Nobles, “House Republicans Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize,” CNN, May 2, 2018.
“fill[s] gaps in”: Heuer, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, 70.
“Minds are like parachutes”: Ibid., 65.
A Tradecraft Primer: U.S. Government, A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis, March 2009, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Tradecraft%20Primer-apr09.pdf.
As The New Yorker’s: Patrick Radden Keefe, “How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success,” The New Yorker, January 7, 2019.
Trump dismissed reports: Shane Harris, “Testimony by Intelligence Chiefs on Global Threats Highlights Differences with President,” WP, January 29, 2019.
The media reported: Shane Harris, Josh Dawsey, and Ellen Nakashima, “Trump Grows Frustrated with Coats, Leading Some to Fear He Might Be Fired,” WP, February 19, 2019.
In November 2017: The White House, “Remarks by President Trump to the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea,” November 7, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-national-assembly-republic-korea-seoul-republic-korea/.
Speaking from the Oval Office: Cristina Maza, “Trump Promises North Korea Can Be ‘Very Rich’ with Kim Jong Un in Power,” Newsweek, May 17, 2018.
“What Chairman Kim”: “Transcript: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on ‘Face the Nation,’ ” May 13, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-on-face-the-nation-may-13-2018/.
“Vision is my best asset”: Plaskin, “Donald Trump.”
Before the meeting with Kim: Brian Bennett and Tessa Berenson, “President Trump ‘Doesn’t Think He Needs’ to Prepare Much for His Meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un,” Time, May 16, 2018.
A Republican adviser admitted: S. V. Date, “In Trump’s Zero-Sum World, the Summit Already Has a Winner, and It’s Not Trump,” HuffPost, June 1, 2018.
And less than a week: John Wagner, “ ‘It’s about the Attitude’: Trump Says He Doesn’t Have to Prepare Much for His Summit with North Korea’s Leader,” WP, June 7, 2018.
Apparently, the White House had not: Eliana Johnson, “Trump and Bolton Spurn Top-Level North Korea Planning,” Politico, June 7, 2018.
“I truly believe North Korea”: @realDonaldTrump, May 27, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1000831304836018176?lang=en.
Before the second summit: The White House, “Fact Sheet: President Trump Is Committed to Achieving Transformational Peace for the United States, the Korean Peninsula, and the World,” February 21, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-committed-achieving-transformational-peace-united-states-korean-peninsula-world/.
Four months later: The White House, “Remarks by President Trump and President Moon of the Republic of Korea in Joint Press Conference,” June 30, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-moon-republic-korea-joint-press-conference/.
A senior North Korean official: “North Korea: Full Response to US Remarks on Trump-Kim Summit,” BBC News, May 16, 2018.
“improvising was his strength”: Woodward, Fear, 230–31.
Kim told a Politburo meeting: Jonathan Cheng, “North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Confirms Summit with U.S.,” WSJ, April 9, 2018.
Kim’s success in winning: Rick Noack, “China’s Official Release on Kim Jong Un’s Visit, Annotated,” WP, March 28, 2018.
Kim must have been: Ibid.
In late 2017, Kim dispatched: Anna Fifield, “North Korea Taps GOP Analysts to Better Understand Trump and His Messages,” WP, September 26, 2017.
In an interview: “Transcript: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on ‘Face the Nation,’ ” May 13, 2018.
Kim almost certainly: Zachary Cohen, Nicole Gaouette, and Kaitlan Collins, “Trump Replaces H. R. McMaster as National Security Adviser with John Bolton,” CNN, March 23, 2018.
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