“I would only meet with Kim Jong-un on the condition that he would agree that he would be drawing down his nuclear capacity to eventually get to the point of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
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Biden never met Kim Jong-un during his January 2021 - January 2025 term. North Korea refused U.S. engagement from the outset: Secretary of State Blinken said in March 2021 that U.S. outreach begun in mid-February had received no response, and leader-level U.S.-North Korea diplomacy remained stalled from 2019 through the end of Biden's term, with Kim never agreeing to draw down his nuclear program. The conditional summit scenario the promise describes therefore never arose, and no meeting of any kind took place.
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