Trump and Kim: The Summit of the Sneetches
The Summit of the Sneetches: off again, on again as insults fly like intercontinental rockets
At the time of going to print, the summit between Donald Jong-un and Kim Trump (not related) was on again. This could of course have changed overnight. Twitter never sleeps. To recap: the White House stunned the world by announcing that Trump and Kim, until then taking the world to the brink of nuclear war, would sit down together and make peace. So far, so good. On April 8, Trump said: "We’ll be meeting ... and I think there’ll be great respect paid by both parties and hopefully we’ll be able to make a deal on the de-nuking of North Korea." On May 10, he said the summit would take place on June 12 in Singapore. A couple of weeks later, Trump’s new security adviser, John R Bolton, put his foot in it. The meeting, he said, should focus on de-nuclearising similar to that which took place in Libya 12 to 14 years ago, saying he would ship the weapons to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The good folks of Oak Ridge were perturbed. Kim was horrified. Perhaps he was planning to ship the weapons to Rob...
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