Seoul, South Korea
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As President Donald Trump danced on the tarmac in Malaysia, met Japan’s emperor in Tokyo, and accepted a gold crown in South Korea, one key question kept following him – would he hold a surprise meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?
On several occasions Trump made public overtures that he’d “love” to meet Kim while in the region. It could have been a made-for-TV sequel to his surprise 2019 visit at the demilitarized zone (DMZ), when Trump made history as the first sitting US president to step foot on North Korean soil.
In the end it never came together. And in Pyongyang, just a few hundred miles away, it was like Trump’s trip never…
