Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump is planning to sit down with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un sometime this spring. President Trump wants to discuss de-nuclearizing North Korea's weapons program. But not long ago, Kim signed on to a deal that would do just that. And the agreement fell apart just weeks after it was signed. NPR's Elise Hu looks back at the lessons from that diplomatic failure. ELISE HU, BYLINE: The setting for this story is Washington and Pyongyang. It's Christmas 2011. Barack Obama was president. Van Jackson was at the Pentagon. VAN JACKSON: And I was working for the secretary of defense as the country director for Korea policy. HU: Journalist Jean Lee was flying in and out of Pyongyang a lot. JEAN LEE: Because I was negotiating the opening of the AP Pyongyang bureau in North Korea. HU: And Kim Jong Il, the father of current leader Kim Jong Un, was still alive and in charge. The goal for the United States when it came to
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