"I never expected to meet you at this place," said Kim to Trump. The US president had organised the last-minute rendezvous on Twitter, as it was then known, just 30 hours earlier when he suggested meeting Chairman Kim at the DMZ "just to shake his hand and say Hello (?

Trump ‘gets along’ with Kim Jong Un ‘very well’ Speaking at a press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump said he 'gets along' with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un 'very well,' and suggested a war would have started had he not been elected for his first presidential term in 2016.

North Korea’s leader has grown more assertive since their last efforts at diplomacy ended in failure — and now has Russia at his side.

Trump predicted that he "will have relations" with North Korea, calling the time he spent with Kim during his first term an “asset."