trump and kim jong-un meeti ing personally and directly according to tonight's announcement and planning to do so reportedly a few weeks from now. now you might imagine another president in this circumstance. kim jong-un makes a request, you want to meet? might think another president in this circumstance, you can imagine a president asking himself or herself why has no other american president ever agreed to do this? why has no sitting american president ever met with a leader from north korea? why has that never happened in all the decades north korea existed. this might be particularly risky. i think that's how most presidents would approach the idea of a personal meeting with the north korean dictator.