Trump really has achieved a historic breakthrough - for the Kim dynasty | Jonathan Freedland

With a shake of the hand, the US president has tightened Kim Jong-un's grip over an enslaved nation - and got almost nothing in returnA useful way to test the deal Donald Trump has reached with Kim Jong-un is to imagine what Trump himself would have said had it been Barack Obama rather than him who shook hands with the North Korean dictator.Trump and his echo chamber on Fox News and elsewhere would have poured buckets of derision on Obama for the piece of paper he signed with Kim, for the fawning praise he lavished on a brutal tyrant and for the paltry non-concessions he got in return. He would have branded the agreement a "horrible deal" and condemned Obama as a sucker for signing it. Continue reading...