The Kim-Trump Summit: Why Now? Why Not Before? Why Not Later?
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By Prof. Joseph H. Chung
Global Research
Early in the morning of June 12, 2018, the world watched Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of North Korea and Donald Trump, president of the United States shaking hands in front of the main entrance of Hotel Capella in Singapore.
It was a hand-shake of the century.
And the world was puzzled.
After all, only a few months ago, they were exchanging not-so- friendly remarks on each other and, now, they shook hands as if they were friends who met again after long separation.
How is this possible?
We must remember that the global cold war between the U.S.-led world and the Soviet-led part of the world lasted for forty years from 1950 to 1990, while the bilateral cold war between North Korea and the U.S.- South Korea alliance lasted alrea...
