What the press is not talking about, or asking questions about, is what led up to this meeting announcement. Leaders don't go to meetings in order to get a deal. They go to meetings because they have already negotiated a deal, and are simply formalizing it for the cameras. For most of the last year, President has been squeezing them hard with sanctions, and driving a wedge between North Korea and China. That was the stick, but the carrot was the negotiations with South Korea.
North Korea is really in bad shape, and any way out using violence is going to end really badly for the North. President Trump, through South Korea, has offered a face saving way out of the situation, and it looks like Kim has taken the deal.
I think we can already see the outline of the deal. South Korea allowed North Korea to attend the Olympics in South Korea. Not only that, North Koreans and South Koreans competed under a new flag of the whole Korean peninsula. And North Koreans joined the South Korean women's hockey team. These are not gestures of "de-nuclearization", but eventual reunification.
The American press will have a collective aneurysm when Kim, Trump, and the South Koreans come out of the meeting room smiling and acting like they are best buddies.
:) Forgive me for picturing that in the literal sense instead of metaphorically.
Nice analysis you gave. None of us know the details of what has happened behind closed doors. We don't even know for sure who, what, where, when, how many or how long any such meetings may have been if they have taken place.
We do know that the Norks asked for this meeting and Trump accepted and announced it publicly. That alone says volumes!