feels he's being treated by the north koreans. he's reduced in a way american national security and american diplomacy to a set of interactions between him personally. and completing your own personal engagement, i think, with that of what our national interests are in engaging in this negotiation is something that i can't imagine any other president doing whether it was ronald reagan meeting one-on-one with someone or richard nixon and henry kissinger in their opening to china. generally speaking we would never have such a summit meeting between two leaders without months or even years of talks between the two parties first. and, you know, it's not accurate to say that the united states has never had an agreement with the north koreans. the united states, along with other leading countries, has made several agreements with