So Donald met Kim, they are now best buddies and the world is a safer place.
At least until he gets on the plane and then starts issuing tweets completely reversing everything he just agreed to, as he did after the G7 meeting.
How can you take a meeting seriously when it is between two of the most inconsistent men on the planet.
I may be a bit tough on Kim there as he is entirely consistent to himself.
As the whole world watched this pantomime we all know that Kim Jong-un is highly unlikely to be trusted. For the moment it suits him to play up to The Donald, but what Kim really wants is to be taken seriously as a world leader, to have the sanctions removed so that he can buy a Jumbo and be free to swan around the world like all other major heads of state. Oh and can McDonalds open up in Pyongyang as well.
The South Koreans have a huge budget put aside for reunification and Kim wants to get his hands on that without the actual reunification.
He is now going to string this along for as long as he can until someone runs out of patience. Unfortunately for Kim he has just made a deal with the most impatient man in the universe.
Let’s wait and see what happens to North Korea’s nuclear bombs. Hopefully they understand that getting rid of them means dismantling and scrapping them and not just lobbing them over the wall at a neighbour.
If sanctions are lifted then maybe their pink hued news reader Ri Chun-hee will be able to afford a dress in a different colour and possibly a new hairstyle. I might be wishing for too much here.
In the lead-up to the summit everybody had to get up to speed. The US officials who were accompanying Trump had to get to know North Korean customs and find out as much as they could about Kim so they could predict what he was likely to ask for.
The North Koreans had to get online to Amazon and make up their shopping list of American products they want shipped immediately.
The Singaporeans had to learn how to cook Kimchi and dogs, Chilli dogs for the Americans and Shar-pei for the Koreans.
Donald also had to do some homework so it was arranged for him to meet the more famous Kim, she of the Kardashian tribe.
A couple of weeks ago she waddled her famous derriere into the Oval office, fluttered her eyelashes and asked Donald for a pardon for some grandmother who had been in prison for 21 years for drug dealing.
Let’s just put that in context. Twenty-one years of what was supposed to be life, and since she is only 62 now that could easily have been another 40 years.
Anders Behring Breivik the Norwegian who killed 77 in terror attacks in 2011 can only be detained for 21 years as that is the maximum prison sentence in Norway. He’ll be out when he’s about 54.
Maybe the Norwegians can transfer him to a special facility in North Korea.
Jackie@JBeedie.com