Human Rights Pushed Aside at Trump-Kim Summit

Expand U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un before their bilateral meeting at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. © 2018 Reuters US President Donald Trump shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un today and called him a “terrific leader” who loves his country. The dictator from Pyongyang certainly has a strange way of showing it, keeping over 100,000 of his fellow citizens in abject misery in mountain gulags. Despite North Korea being subject to US sanctions on human rights grounds and the locus of ongoing crimes…

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