South Korean President Moon Jae-in is trying to convince the American public that talking seriously with Kim Jong Un — a man the current U.S. president once implicitly compared to Hitler — is the only way to achieve peace on the peninsula. But he’s going to have a tough time ridding this strategy of its Trumpian stigma.

On Wednesday, The New York Times published an interview with Moon in which he called on U.S. President Joe Biden to waste no time in talking to North Korea. The article came roughly a month ahead of a summit