Trump Summits Gave North Korea de Facto Nuclear Status: Ban Ki-moon | TIME

Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that Kim Jong Un played to President Donald Trump’s “ego and penchant for pageantry” during their three one-on-one high-profile summits in 2018 and 2019, and that the North Korean leader “seems to have succeeded in acquiring de facto nuclear state status.”
https://time.com/5851263/north-korea-de-facto-nuclear-state-ban-ki-moon/