Stuffed cucumbers, awkward small talk and that handshake: Inside the Singapore summit

July 22, 2020 / By mobanmarket

In a meeting that would have defied credulity just a few months ago, at 9.02 yesterday morning in a Singapore hotel, as the world watched with baited breath, Donald Trump yesterday strode towards the man he once called “a sick puppy’, arm outstretched in greeting. Smiling nervously, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, reciprocated the gesture, holding out his hand to the man that he, in turn, had derided as a “mentally deranged US dotard,”.

Amidst a cacophony of camera shutters, and in a dislay of improable fraternity, the two men clasped each other in a 13 second handshake, seemingly drawing a line under an extraordinary year of threats and insults that many feared had brought the world to…

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