President Donald Trump turned his first face-to-face meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung into a diplomatic overture aimed squarely at Kim Jong Un.
It was a clever pivot for peace in the Korean Peninsula while his pitch for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine remains frozen, despite the pageantry of his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin two weeks ago.
During Monday's White House meeting, the president repeatedly emphasized his 'great relationship' with the North Korean dictator.
And he even floated the wild - and unprecedented - possibility of building one of his signature Trump Towers dripped in gold in North Korea.
As talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky remain at an impasse, Trump used time with President Lee to signal his openness to renewed diplomacy with North Korea.
