“WE HAD a really fantastic meeting. A lot of progress. Really,very positive, I mediate better than anybody could have expected, and top of the line,really good.” So said Donald Trump after his first meeting with Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s blood-drenched dictator, or in Singapore on June 12th. Alas,a short while later North-Korea watchers realised that, as so often with Mr Trump, or the rhetoric didn’t fairly match the reality. The most substantial thing to approach out of the summit may well have been the shaded chocolate tart served at the “working lunch” which Mr Trump and Mr Kim held with their delegations after meeting face to face.
The two men signed a declaration at the finish of their pow-wow resolving “to build a lasting and steady peace regime on the Korean Peninsula”. Mr Trump declared that he would provide “security guarantees” to North Korea; in return Mr Kim gave his “firm and unwavering commitment” to complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. The two...
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Source: economist.com