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Trump v Kim: The mind games that led to the Korea summit

Trump v Kim: The mind games that led to the Korea summit

The taunts over nuclear buttons between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump galvanised efforts to get the two leaders to agree to meet in Singapore next week. They also had an unanticipated consequence.

Not long afterwards, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, ranking second on the world’s nuclear political stage, announced a new type of intercontinental rocket. A simple animation showed a weapon that would supposedly renew the nuclear arms race as it sped across the globe presumably to kill millions of Americans.

It …