"Solidarity of heirs on the Trump and Kim surreality show"

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This article seems to sum up that surreal meeting as well as any.

It had the lack of depth and meaning of a tv reality show. I would add that the accord probably has the same chance of lasting as the showmances from these types of shows - which means about as long as the cameras are focused on them.

The US president seemed to identify with Kim Jong-un’s backstory, taking over the family business at a young age.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/solidarity-of-heirs-on-the-trump-and-kim-surreality-show

The personal warmth only got deeper as they (sic) day went on. By the end of five hours, after Kim had signed the joint statement and flow back to Pyongyang, Trump was talking about a special bond between them, and appeared ready to defend Kim to the bitter end.

Asked about the North Korean leader’s penchant for killing his own relatives and starving his own people, Trump replied: “Well he is very talented. Anybody that takes over a situation like he did at 26 years of age and is able to run it and run it tough.”
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At his side Kim said little, apparently content to allow Trump to act as a master of ceremonies and cheerleader. With his perpetual flow of honeyed adjectives and careful stage-management, the US president, a former reality show host, conducted the summit as if it were a TV dating show – one in which Trump was both compère and suitor.
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No amount of scepticism or snarkiness from the press was going to dent Trump’s mood. He seemed genuinely unaware that the promises he had received about North Korean denuclearisation had been made, in somewhat firmer language, by Kim’s father and grandfather in earlier decades.

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