US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters
Keith B. Richburg
Opinion

Opinion

Asian Angle by Keith B. Richburg

Admit it: Trump’s Singapore date with Kim made us all safer

The results from the US-North Korea summit are at worst vague and opaque, but at least the two nations are no longer sabre-rattling with nukes, and that’s a good start – as long as the US president can stay out of his own way

Keith B. Richburg
Keith B. Richburg

Updated: 7:49pm, 17 Jun, 2018

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US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore. Photo: Reuters
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Keith B. Richburg

Keith B. Richburg

Professor Keith B. Richburg, a former Washington Post correspondent, is Director of The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.