US President Trump continues to send love calls to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - can relations ever return to what they were before?

As U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office again in January this year, shows a desire to resume dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jung Eun, North Korea has strengthened its hostility toward the United States.
The reporter recently inspected a shipyard that builds the navy's nuclear submarines and other ships, but according to North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong Un mentioned that the U.S. Navy's nuclear aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines had recently called at South Korean ports.
With this in mind, North Korea criticized the United States for its "gun diplomacy" and stated, "We will never sit idly by and watch enemy military activities on and under the sea that harm our sovereignty and interests."
It also strongly criticized the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, and the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea, published an article on the 10th of this month stating, "We have already expressed our intention to continue exercising strategic deterrence in response to the US military demonstrations.
"North Korea has expressed its intention to launch a counter-measure," he said, indicating that it would not hesitate to take counter-measures. Then, in the afternoon of the same day, North Korea launched several ballistic missiles, believed to be short-range, toward the Yellow Sea on the west side of the Korean Peninsula.
This is the first missile launch since Trump took office as president in January this year. However, the ballistic missile launched this time had a short range of 60 to 100 kilometers, and it is not expected to cause any damage to South Korea.
The Yonhap News Agency, a news agency in the United States, pointed out that "the short-range ballistic missile launch may have been a test of the direction of the Trump administration's North Korea policy."
In an editorial published in the newspaper, the paper pointed out that "the situation has changed dramatically since Trump once boasted that he and Kim had 'fell in love.'"
During his first term in office from 2017 to 2021, Trump built an unusual diplomatic relationship with Kim, who was isolated in the international community, and met with him three times to work toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
However, the talks fell apart and no progress was made toward denuclearization. When Trump was inaugurated as president again in January of this year, he expressed a desire to meet with Kim again.
In response to a question, he spoke about his relationship with Kim Jong Un, saying, "We had a very good relationship. His country is now a nuclear power, but we got along well. He will be happy to see me back."
In an interview with Fox News broadcast on the 23rd of the same month, Trump responded to a question about whether he would try to contact Kim again by saying, "I would," and, "He's a smart guy and he cares about me."
"We were in the middle of the day. We were doing well," Trump said in his State of the Nation address to a joint session of the House and Senate on the 4th of this month (local time).
This was the first time that Trump has spoken publicly about the American Dream, and the content of the speech drew much attention. Trump declared, "The American Dream cannot be stopped." He outlined his vision for the future. However, in his speech, he also mentioned the North Korean nuclear issue and
There was no mention of Kim Jong Un. According to the South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo, a South Korean government source who spoke to the newspaper said, "The new administration has yet to decide on its foreign policy, including its North Korea policy.
"Because he has not yet completed his review of the issue, he only mentioned ending the Ukraine war, which is the top priority of the second Trump administration's foreign and security policy."
After conveying his views, he said, "When Trump was a presidential candidate and after taking office, he made statements at major events calling for dialogue with Kim Jong Un, making his intention to hold dialogue between the United States and North Korea official, so he did not mention North Korea this time.
"Some analysts believe that this may have been a strategic decision," the report said. Meanwhile, when Trump was inaugurated, the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the Workers' Party of North Korea, did not issue any commentary and instead reported the inauguration.
The Dong-A Ilbo newspaper at the time quoted a diplomatic source as saying, "This just shows how nervous North Korea is about the inauguration of the Trump administration."
In the aforementioned online article, the British public broadcaster BBC cited Korea Prologue, an advanced fellow at the Stimson Center in the U.S., which analyzes North Korea's activities, as the
Director Lam introduced the views of Jennie Town. Town said, "North Korea has been trying to maintain its nuclear program throughout the first year of the second Trump administration, and has been trying to maintain its nuclear program since 2017 (the first Trump administration)."
He will try to prove to Trump that he is not the same man he was back then, that he is stronger militarily and politically, and that if he ever returns to the negotiating table, this time he will be completely different.
"The negotiations will be different," he said. A glimpse of this is already starting to emerge. On the 8th of this month, Kim Jong Un inspected the construction site of a naval nuclear submarine and said, "We have established the basic rules for the invasion of enemy countries.
"The future depends on how we protect the sea, which is our main base," he said, ordering an early upgrade of military capabilities. The news of the inspection was reported by the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo as "Chairman Kim Jong Un will show it to President Trump."
The article was headlined, "Nuclear Submarine Open to the Public."