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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, March 9th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Last August, President Trump threatened North Korea with fire and fury like the world has never seen.

In September, in his first speech before the U.N., he threatened to totally destroy the country and ridiculed Kim Jong-un as rocket man.

Yesterday, the White House announced, to the surprise of most of Trump's advisors, that he has agreed to meet with Kim Jong-un within the next few months.

The news served one of its immediate goals of distracting everyone from a blizzard of headlines

about developments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the tariffs Trump

is imposing on steel and aluminum imports, and the lawsuit filed against him by a pornographic

film star.

But the announcement is completely in keeping with Trump's ad hoc foreign policy, especially

when it comes to dealing with autocratic regimes.

Last month at the Munich Security Conference, H.R. McMaster, the U.S. National Security

Advisor said that the evidence of Russia meddling in the election was incontrovertible,

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