It will be the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un tentatively planned for early June, if it ever happens, that truly matters. History was made on Friday by the leaders of North and South Korea in their first summit in more than a decade. Will it result in a breakthrough over the issue of North Korea’s nuclear threats? And that is actually a familiar North Korean position, always defined disingenuously as including America’s nuclear umbrella protecting South Korea. With Trump still to go on stage, the cliffhanger episode of this high-wire Asian reality show hasn’t even begun yet.

Source: thestar April 27, 2018 17:48 UTC