Article snippet: It was a moment that will surely live on in history books: MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands in front of a row of six American and six North Korean flags. The first ever summit between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader concluded Tuesday in Singapore with a joint declaration that was long on ambition but short on details. In exchange for unspecified “security guarantees” from the United States, North Korea agreed to an “unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” Secretary of State MORE will now dig in with North Korean officials to hash out the details. Here are five takeaways from a historic day. The summit couldn't have gone better for Kim Kim, who is accused of assassinating relatives and executing scores of his citizens, appeared to get his top outcome from the meeting: legitimacy on the international stage. “This whole Singapore meeting, didn’t it look like a big coming out party for North Korea as the world’s newest nuclear weapons state?” Sue Mi Terry, senior fellow and Korea chair at the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS), told reporters on a post-summit conference call. Even before the summit, Kim was being treated more like a rock star than a dictator around Singapore, getting cheers as he toured the city-state. The equal number of alternating flags for each country sent a message of parity between a global superpower and the world’s most reclusive state. Better y... Link to the full article to read more