Contemporary · Southeast Asia · Politics

2018

Trump and Kim meet in Singapore

June 12, 2018

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shook hands in front of crossed flags on Sentosa Island, becoming the first sitting American president to meet a North Korean leader. They signed a thin joint statement. Subsequent meetings produced no denuclearization, but the optics and the photographs marked a new genre of strongman diplomacy.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: August 25, 2017: Rohingya cleansed from Rakhine
After: February 1, 2021: Myanmar coup

Before and after in Politics

Before: August 12, 2017: Charlottesville
After: June 9, 2019: Hong Kong rises

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.