Carter’s trip to NK in 1995 “defused” the standoff, but not in our favor. It provided the North with time & cover to develop its nukes.
And, lest we forget... the powder nose billy boy gave FOOD to the starving Norks with the promise they wouldn’t expand their missile/nuke program. Worked out well for them— we fed their g-dmnd army of skinnies (only marginally more nutritioned than the rest of the prisoners there.