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Immediately after taking office, Trump had exchanged vitriolic rhetoric with and made threats to North Korea after the latter carried out numerous medium/long range missile tests and a nuclear test in September 2017, causing some to fear that war was inevitable on the Korean peninsula.  However, in March 2018, Trump announced he would hold a summit with North Korea Chairman Kim Jong Un, making him the first U.S. president to have bilateral talks with a North Korean leader.  The first summit was held in Singapore in June 2018, a second in Hanoi in February 2019, and a third informal summit in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in June 2019 - during which he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil. During the period of the summits, North Korea had halted testing of long/medium range missiles, as well as nuclear testing (and outside of a few short range missiles in early May 2019, North Korea hasn't tested any weapons since November 2017.)

Immediately after taking office, Trump had exchanged vitriolic rhetoric with and made threats to North Korea after the latter carried out numerous medium/long range missile tests and a nuclear test in September 2017, causing some to fear that war was inevitable on the Korean peninsula.  However, in March 2018, Trump announced he would hold a summit with North Korea Chairman Kim Jong Un, making him the first U.S. president to have bilateral talks with a North Korean leader.  The first summit was held in Singapore in June 2018, a second in Hanoi in February 2019, and a third informal summit in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in June 2019 - during which he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil. During the period of the summits, North Korea had halted testing of long/medium range missiles, as well as nuclear testing (and outside of a few short range missiles in early May 2019, North Korea hasn't tested any weapons since November 2017.)

On Monday, 7 October 2019, Trump ordered American military forces not to defend their allies of the – predominantly but not exclusively – Syrian Kurdish ''SDF'' (''Syrian Democratic Force'') in case Turkish forces and their allies would attack them. This decision came after a telephone conversation with Turkish ruler [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] on Sunday and reportedly blindsided top Pentagon officials.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkey-announces-incursion-of-northeast-syria-us-backed-kurds-have-vowed-all-out-war Trump pulls back troops from northern Syria ahead of Turkish assault, Pentagon officials 'blindsided']</ref> A few days later Turkish forces started a massive attack on the Syrian Kurds.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-ground-forces-civilians-dead Turkey announces northern Syria invasion of ground forces; multiple civilians reported dead]</ref> Trump justified the highly symbolic retreat of the American troops (what caused a member to openly express that he felt ashamed)<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-special-forces-soldier-kurds Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, 'I am ashamed for the first time in my career']</ref> with the need to get out of the Middle East. And in addition Trump told reporters that the Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example ...”.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/09/trump-syria-kurds-normandy Trump defends Syria decision by saying Kurds 'didn't help us with Normandy']</ref> In the same week it was announced that it is planned by the U.S. administration to send 1500 troops to the Middle East because of the tensions between [[Saudi-Arabia]] and [[Iran]].<ref>[https://video.foxnews.com/v/6040831354001/ President Trump plans to send 1,500 US troops to the Middle East]</ref>

On Monday, 7 October 2019, Trump ordered American military forces not to defend their allies of the – predominantly but not exclusively – Syrian Kurdish ''SDF'' (''Syrian Democratic Force'') in case Turkish forces and their allies would attack them. This decision came after a telephone conversation with Turkish ruler [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] on Sunday and reportedly blindsided top Pentagon officials.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkey-announces-incursion-of-northeast-syria-us-backed-kurds-have-vowed-all-out-war Trump pulls back troops from northern Syria ahead of Turkish assault, Pentagon officials 'blindsided']</ref> A few days later Turkish forces started a massive attack on the Syrian Kurds.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-ground-forces-civilians-dead Turkey announces northern Syria invasion of ground forces; multiple civilians reported dead]</ref> Trump justified the highly symbolic retreat of the American troops (what caused a member to openly express that he felt ashamed)<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-special-forces-soldier-kurds Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, 'I am ashamed for the first time in my career']</ref> with the need to get out of the Middle East. And in addition Trump told reporters that the Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example ...”.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/09/trump-syria-kurds-normandy Trump defends Syria decision by saying Kurds 'didn't help us with Normandy']</ref> In the same week it was announced that it is planned by the U.S. administration to send 1500 troops to the Middle East because of the tensions between [[Saudi-Arabia]] and [[Iran]].<ref>[https://video.foxnews.com/v/6040831354001/ President Trump plans to send 1,500 US troops to the Middle East]</ref>

 

<small>Side note: Trump's move to abandon the Syrian Kurds was massively criticized by U.S. senator [[Lindsey Graham]] who was a staunch ally of Trump during the [[Mueller office|Mueller investigation]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-syria-lindsey-graham-obama Sen. Graham warns Syria withdrawal would be 'big win for ISIS,' compares Trump's strategy to Obama]</ref><ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/lindsey-graham-mueller-over-charged-people-trump Lindsey Graham: Mueller 'tried to scare people into ratting on Trump' -- but it didn't work]</ref> Shortly after that a hoax call was leaked to the media that portrayed Graham as double-tongued on his opinion about the role of the Syrian Kurdish forces towards a mock Turkish defense minister;<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russian-pranksters-lindsey-graham-turkey Russian radio hosts prank Lindsey Graham into thinking he's on phone with Turkey's defense minister]</ref> the Russian pranksters "Vovan and Lexus" already had intimidated Democratic House intelligence committee chairman [[Adam Schiff]]<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rep-digs-up-audio-of-schiff-saying-he-would-accept-dirt-on-trump-from-ukrainian-politician-in-prank-call GOP lawmaker digs up audio of Schiff telling prank callers he would accept Trump dirt from Ukraine]</ref> and tried to do that with [[Boris Johnson]] and allegedly have ties to the Russian intelligence services.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/24/russian-pranksters-discuss-putin-and-skripal-in-call-with-boris-johnson Russian pranksters discuss Putin and Skripal in call with Boris Johnson]</ref></small>

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