Mark your calendars. In a breezy few weeks, we will again be familiar spectators to a Trump-Kim tête-à-tête – held this time in Vietnam. In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Trump announced he would be meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a two-day summit on 27 and 28 February.

In his addressto the American public, Trump passed a few lines on North Korea and the upcoming summit, commending his Presidency and the administration’s bold new diplomacy for Pyongyang’s pause on nuclear testing and missile launches – in short, proximation to peace