Trump-Kim talks: Progress or giveaway?

President John Kennedy could’ve met with former Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro to alleviate food shortages. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush could have met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to help stabilize the Middle East. During his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about military-industrial complexes. Nobody has listened except President Donald Trump. Bob Munson

Newbury Park, Calif.

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There is something very wrong when two people like these have the power to start a nuclear war.

Gary Kennedy

This meeting sounds a lot better than dropping hydrogen bombs near Hawaii.

Robert Carande

Trump is always blamed for these problems. Trump is to blame for unrest in the Middle East? And North Korea?

The people telling us what Trump should do in diplomacy are the same

In the Editorial Board’s Our View, “Trump’s North Korea spectacle shows he’d do anything, even undercut America, for attention,” it says Trump gets credit for another result-less meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. But what about what Kim gets?

For years, the world has isolated North Korea. For the third time the president saw Kim, this time even in North Korea. To Asia and much of the world, this is Kim’s gigantic diplomatic victory. And what did he concede? Nothing.

Georg Christensen

The Woodlands, Texas

ones who have not gotten it done in decades. If they’re so expert, why have they not fixed it?

Clay Cullum

Nobody has done more to legitimize this dictatorial regime than Trump.

Bryan Gooden

Let’s just have zero negotiations, continuing the conflict forever.

Jon Gilbert

Trump has no idea what he’s doing. He can have his photo-op, but I hope he has no role in any deal-making process.

Ken Edwards