Trump, Kim ditch aides for meeting

Singapore, June 12: As the world waited, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sat by themselves for the better part of an hour, alone but for a pair of interpreters who became the sole witnesses to history's first face-to-face conversation between an American president and a North Korean leader.

The scores of aides, bodyguards and diplomats who accompanied the leaders from Washington and Pyongyang waited elsewhere for the roughly 45-minute one-on-one meeting. To some national security veterans, it raised concerns about the risk of holding such a monumental meeting solo. –AP