Threats and niceties

February Just a month 2017 after entering office, Mr Trump tweets: “North Korea is behaving very badly.”

August 2017 He says missile threats will be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”.

September 2017 He calls Kim “Rocket Man” and “a madman”. Kim calls him “deranged”.

January 2018 “The button for nuclear weapons is on my table,” Kim says. “[Mine] is much bigger,” says Trump.

March 2018 “Look forward to meeting,” he tweets.

May 2018 “We will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace,” he says.