Agreement may end up a bit iffy..

IF HE has pulled it off, Donald Trump will go down in history as the biggest peacemaker since Ronald Reagan shook hands with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, beginning the end of the Cold War.

If this maverick president has managed to secure peace and disarmament in the Korean peninsula – which has been in a state of war for more than 60 years – then the praise, the Nobel Prize and all the accolades that await are his. If... it’s that word again. What emerged from the razzamatazz summit in Singapore was a very slim document promising very little.

With the showmanship and drama that took him through his years as a celebrity property developer and TV game show host, Trump presented his historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as a triumph.

Historic it was, and a triumph too as talking beats threatening “little rocket man”.

But the detail counts. The Singapore agreement commits the communist leader only “to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.

That means everyone’s nuclear weapons out, including the US bombers which routinely overfly South Korea and guarantee security for Japan.

Trump relishes the art of the deal, as he calls it, but it might not be the deal he thinks it is.

The person that has come out of this deal the best is Kim Jong-un – a despot who locks up his own people, now feted as a superstar who shakes hands with the most powerful man in the world.