Trump boasts about progress with North Korea: 'If not for me, we would now be at war'

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By Summer Meza, The Week US

published 3 July 2018

President Trump would like to say "you're welcome."

Trump on Tuesday claimed that he prevented a war from breaking out between the U.S. and North Korea.

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Trump patted himself on the back for a job well done after his June 12 meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. The summit included signing a vague document that pledged efforts to "work toward" denuclearization, which Trump called a "big step back from potential nuclear catastrophe." Though the president arguably escalated the threat of conflict in the first place with the Twitter insults he lobbed at Kim, he would now like us to all thoroughly enjoy the war that didn't break out as a result.

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Summer Meza has worked at The Week since 2018, serving as a staff writer, a news writer and currently the deputy editor. As a proud news generalist, she edits everything from political punditry and science news to personal finance advice and film reviews. Summer has previously written for Newsweek and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, covering national politics, transportation and the cannabis industry.

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