Shrouded in Secrecy, Trump’s DMZ Trip Is Foiled by Fog<br />8, 2017<br />Trump said that We’re going to have an exciting day tomorrow,<br />Moon, he was left waiting in vain for Mr. Trump to arrive at the DMZ for what White House officials said<br />would have been the first joint visit to the area by an American president and a South Korean president.<br />In the end, dense fog forced Marine One and the helicopter convoy accompanying the president to turn back, costing a frustrated Mr. Trump a potent visual<br />and leaving President Moon Jae-in of South Korea waiting at the DMZ for a commander in chief who would never arrive.<br />Having flirted publicly with the prospect that the president would visit the demilitarized zone while he was in Seoul, 35 miles to the south, White House officials had made a show of shooting down the idea, first saying<br />that Mr. Trump was unlikely to go, and later flatly ruling it out.<br />Moon did not want him to make the trip, officials said, perhaps worrying about allowing the famously unscripted Mr. Trump, who has insulted<br />Mr. Kim, the North Korean leader, as "Little Rocket Man," to a place where any errant remark would take on graver significance.<br />It was difficult to believe that Mr. Trump, a showman who makes little secret of his love of all things militaristic, would forego a chance to visit the site,<br />a staple of presidential trips to the region in the past, particularly during a trip dominated by talks about how to confront the threat from North Korea.
