A New York Times editorial, "North Korean Nuclear Shell Game," about the Trump administration's North Korean nuclear diplomacy complains about "no deadlines, no verification regime, no penalties for noncompliance," and asserts, "Mr. Trump's special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, has yet to meet a North Korean official more than two months since his appointment."
Never mind the hypocrisy and inconsistency — the Times cheerleads for sketchy nuclear deals with Iran and even with North Korea when they are reached by Democratic administrations, but once a Republican gets into office, all of a sudden the Times editorials sound like they are being ghostwritten by Frank Gaffney.
Never mind that the Times doesn't even acknowledge the Trump administration's significant accomplishment of achieving the safe release of three Americans who had been held hostage by North Korea.
The Times can't even get the basic facts right. Biegun, whose career we've followed since his days working for Benjamin Gilman, in fact has met with North Koreans. He accompanied Secretary of State Pompeo to Pyongyang on October 4. A Bloomberg news account reported, "The Sunday stop in Pyongyang was Pompeo's first chance to introduce his special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, to leaders there." CBS News also reported on Biegun's presence in Pyongyang.
It'll be interesting to see whether the Times runs a correction acknowledging this factual error.