Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have met in Singapore, opening a historic summit that marks the first meeting between a US president and North Korean leader after decades of bitter hostility between Pyongyang and Washington.
Mr Trump and Mr Kim met at the Capella hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, for the first stage in a process that the US, Japan, South Korea and China hope will lead to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula. The White House said the men would meet without advisers before a wider gathering.
The summit, which comes 17 months after Mr Trump took office, follows a turbulent period that saw the two nations at one point appear to edge dangerously close to war. The leaders had fired insults at each other last summer with Mr Trump calling Mr Kim a “madman” and the North Korean leader responding by calling Mr Trump a “dotard”.