Food-crazed Singapore has created some strange fusion food for the Trump-Kim summit. But are any of them good enough to bring about world peace? An American and a Korean tell us the answer.

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Watching reactions to the Singapore summit as it unfolded became the ultimate foreign policy Rorschach test, writes Korea specialist and research analyst Jenny Town - everyone came away with a different picture of what happened.

There are those who will laud it for establishing a seemingly new approach to US-North Korea relations, one that is more co-operative than confrontational.

There are those who will praise it for abandoning the all-or-nothing negotiation style and opting for a more pragmatic and longer-term process, providing enough time and space to work out the details of where we're headed and how to get there.

Others will see this as having accomplished nothing new or specific on the denuclearisation front and having simply given both leaders the media attention they so crave. Of course, none of these interpretations are mutually exclusive.

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"There is great meaning in Chairman Kim's clearly confirming to President Trump the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula," Japanese Prime Minister Abe said after speaking to Trump about the summit, Reuters reported.

Abe also said that tackling the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea could only happen with US support.

It's now almost 10:00 on the US East Coast, and Americans are still waking up to the news.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who opposed normalising relations with Cuba under Obama, says he is "skeptical" of Kim Jong-un - but accused those criticising the summit who hailed President Obama's rapprochement with Cuba of a "double standard".

In a follow-up tweet he criticised the media - a year ago "they attacked Trump for leading us towards war, now attack for being too quick for peace", he said.

James Jay Carafano from the Heritage Foundation think tank tells the BBC that it would be easy to bring strong economic growth to North Korea via sanctions relief because it is the "worst economy in humanity, ever. It is dead last".

Most investments would come from South Korea and China, he says, adding however that if a fast-growing North Korea emerged from the Chinese sphere of influence, that could create difficulties for Pyongyang.

While pundits analyse the text of the joint agreement (or the firmness of the two leaders' handshakes) others are revealing some of the quirkier moments of the day.

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• The beaches -The former property developer flattered the North Korean coastline, saying "they have great beaches" and suggested that it be developed with condos. The US government currently advises against all travel to North Korea and says that its citizens who decide to go should draft a will before departure.

• The joke - Before the two leaders sat down for a working lunch, Trump jokingly asked photographers: "Getting a good picture, everybody? So we look nice and handsome and thin?" However, his words seem to have been lost in translation, judging by Kim's blank expression.
• 'The Beast' - After the talks, Trump took Kim outside to show him the black armoured presidential limousine that is used by the US president all over the world. Cameras followed the two men as they walked over to the vehicle and Mr Kim briefly looked inside.

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• The pens- The pens originally laid out for the signing of the documents were black and featured Trump's signature in gold. But at the last moment, Kim's influential sister Kim Yo-jong switched the North Korean leader's pen for a ballpoint pen. Security for the North Korean leader has been high throughout the trip, but it is unclear whether the pens were swapped for security or political reasons.
• The tears - Former basketball star Dennis Rodman, who has visited North Korea five times and twice took part in Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, was visibly overwhelmed as he spoke about the meeting between the two leaders. He said he had received "so many death threats" over his contacts with Kim, but said: "I took all those bullets, I took all that, I took everything... and I'm still standing... Today is a great day for everybody... I'm so happy."

Trump has spoken with South Korea's President Moon from Air Force One, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

"President Moon said President Trump has achieved a great success in the North Korea-U.S. summit, laying the foundation for peace not only on the Korean Peninsula but in the entire world," Yonhap quoted Moon's office as saying.

Trump said Kim Jong-un's agreement to dismantle a missile engine testing site showed North Korea's commitment.

Meanwhile Moon said he would discuss with North Korea the excavation of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says he is cautiously optimistic about the result of the Trump Kim summit.

He notes that North Korea has given up "nothing yet" and that "this is an agreement in principle".

He also congratulates Trump, but notes "there is no agreement", yet.

"One thing I would tell you, if there is an agreement it must come to congress for our approval."

If mandatory sanctions are to be lifted on North Korea, senators will need to vote on it.

They want Trump to send them a treaty before he enters into a binding agreement with North Korea.

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Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has released a statement supporting nuclear non-proliferation but still highly critical of Trump.

"We respect any serious and real diplomatic efforts to achieve" nuclear non-proliferation, she says.

But, she says, "apparently, the President handed Kim Jong-un concessions in exchange for vague promises that do not approach a clear and comprehensive pathway" towards that goal.

"In his haste to reach an agreement, President Trump elevated North Korea to the level of the United States while preserving the regime’s status quo."

She finishes: "The President’s marginalisation of the vast expertise of the State Department and his habitual disparaging of our allies as demonstrated at the G7 Forum hinders a lasting, stable pathway to peace."

Ahead of the Singapore summit, Professor Robert Kelly predicted President Trump might swing the conversation towards real estate. As it turned out, he was more or less right.

The ex-NBA star says he has been telling a former Homeland Security advisor about his trips to North Korea.

Rodman has the strange distinction of being the first American to have met both Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. He has twice been a contestant on Mr Trump's reality television show Celebrity Apprentice and has travelled to North Korea five times. He even claims to have given Mr Kim a copy of The Art of the Deal, the Trump guide to hustle and deal-making in big business.

Read more about Rodman's North Korea connection here

Trump tells ABC News that he had prior conversations with the North Korea leader "over the last few months", something that that was not previously known.

"Yeah, I have spoken, yes, I have spoken to him, I have spoken to a lot of his people," he said.

Trump denied that the US nuclear umbrella over South Korea was on the table.

"They’re going to get rid of their nuclear weapons. We never even discussed the other," he told interviewer George Stephanopoulos after the historic summit.

All nuclear weapons will be removed from the North, he said.

"Yeah, he’s de-nuking, I mean he’s de-nuking the whole place. It’s going to start very quickly. I think he’s going to start now.

"They’ll be announcing things over the next few days talking about other missile sites because they were, as you know, they were sending out a lot of missiles.

"It was a period of time where I was saying, what are they doing? Every week it seems another missile going up. I mean, they're going to be getting rid of sites."

The US president adds that the North Korean people "love" Kim Jong-un.

"His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor."

What did South Koreans make of the Trump Kim summit? Here Seoul resident Jung Su-udon gives her views:

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In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the process is “really moving rapidly.”

"I just think that we are now we are going to start the process of denuclearisation of North Korea, and I believe that he’s going back and will start it virtually immediately - and he’s already indicated that and you look at what he’s done," Trump told host Sean Hannity before departing Singapore.

"His country has to be de-nuked and he understood that, he fully understood that, he didn’t fight it," Trump said.

He adds that the two men "got along from the beginning", and said he did not regret using strong language in the past.

"Without the rhetoric we wouldn’t have been here," he said.

"So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it, sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but we had no choice."

The full Fox News interview airs tonight at 21:00ET/ 01:00GMT (Wednesday).

Some countries have welcomed the Singapore agreement - but Iran is not among them. Officials there were quick to warn the North Koreans that Mr Trump could cancel the agreement before he's back in Washington.

"We don't know what type of person the North Korean leader is negotiating with," an Iranian government spokesman was quoted as saying by Irna news agency.

Last month Mr Trump said he would pull the US out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, saying it was "decaying and rotten".

North Korea's growing diplomatic activities are being closely watched by one small and intriguing group - former North Korean spies who hope it could mean they finally get to go home.

They are people such as Kim Young-sik, one of 19 former North Korean spies in South Korea who want to go home.

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After signing an agreement with Kim Jong-un scant on detail, President Trump held an extraordinary press conference where he held court as reporters fired questions.

In case you missed it, here are some of the memorable, and frankly, jaw-dropping, things he said.

• On North Korean prisoners: "I think they are one of the great winners today."
• On military exercises with South Korea: "We will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money... Plus I think it is very provocative."
• On the need to check notes from his meeting: "I have one of the great memories of all time. I don’t have to do that."
• On apologising if things don't go as planned: "I think he's gonna do these things. I may be wrong. I may stand before you in six months and say, hey, I was wrong," he said, before adding: "I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that. But I’ll find some kind of an excuse."
• On why he thinks experts are wrong about denuclearisation taking 15 years: "I think whoever wrote that is wrong... There will be a point at which when you are 20 percent through you can’t go back. I had an uncle who was a great professor for, I believe, 40 years at MIT. And I used to discuss nuclear with him all the time. He was a great expert. He was a great brilliant genius."

If you've got time to spare and want to revisit everything the US leader said, Vox have published a full transcript, external. It's about 9,000 words.

Before Trump's news conference, journalists were treated to a four-minute promotional video in both Korean and English that Trump later said he had shown to Kim.

"I thought they were fascinated by it. I thought it was well done. I showed it to you because that is the future," he said.

Speaking against a background of portentous music, the narrator asks in a dramatic voice:

"Will this leader choose to advance his country... Will he shake the hand of peace and enjoy prosperity like he has never seen?... Which path will be chosen?

"Featuring President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un in a meeting to remake history, to shine in the sun. One moment, one choice. The future remains to be written."

Journalist Philip Pan has posted the video on social media

The EU has praised the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a "crucial and necessary step", AFP reports, saying it indicated "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula was a possibility.

"This summit was a crucial and necessary step to build upon the positive developments achieved in inter-Korean relations and on the peninsula so far," EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said.

Russia has also described the summit as positive.

"We have not yet seen the documents (signed at the summit)... But the mere fact that this meeting took place is of course positive," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by Russian media as saying.

In the UK, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said North Korea's commitment to denuclearisation showed the country had finally got the message that it needed to change, Reuters said.