A sitting president of the United States has never met with North Korea because American policy since the armistice of 1953 has been to regard it as a rogue regime. Regardless, prior administrations coordinated aid, monitoring and investigations until the relationship broke down in 2002 (11 months after Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech). Trump is not the first President to be asked to meet as equals. He's the first to agree. He's also the first to suggest that war with/over North Korea would be a good idea. Clinton had a nuclear freeze and regular inspections. Obama had a moratorium on missile tests. Trump? Trump's the president North Korea threatened with a "strike to the heart". I'm not sure we agree on the definition of "feckless."
Clinton got them to sign the Agreed Framework which held until Bush called them the Axis of Evil. That kept them at "have refined yellowcake" but no further. Three years after the breakdown of the Agreed Framework, they tested a nuclear weapon.
John Dean, Nixon's Lawyer It hadn't occurred to me that a man impressed by French military parades might soon have a North Korean military parade in front of him, in his honor.This is not a “Nixon to China” moment. Trump is playing way out of his league and the world knows it. Kim knows it. Much can go very wrong and Trump won’t read a briefing book. Going to be interesting— and extremely dangerous. Kim will give him a parade and have his mind/heart.