Trump meets Kim Jong Un in Singapore

After months of saber-rattling that gave way to flirtation, President Trump finally met face-to-face with Kim Jong Un at a hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore on Tuesday morning.

Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, Trump and Kim shook hands for about 12 seconds in front of a bank of 12 alternating U.S. and North Korean flags. After their initial greeting, Trump and Kim sat down and spoke briefly to reporters.

Trump, who had insisted he would know “within the first minute” if Kim was serious about denuclearization, said he “felt really great” and that it was “an honor” to meet the North Korean dictator.

“We’re going to have a great discussion,” Trump said. “A tremendous success. We will have a great relationship.”

The pair then retreated to a private room where they were expected to meet one-on-one, with interpreters, for approximately 45 minutes before an expanded bilateral meeting with advisers.

Trump arrived at the hotel after issuing a flurry of tweets dismissing skeptics of the meeting between U.S. leaders and the rogue nuclear nation as “haters & losers.”

He also revealed that his economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who did not among the U.S. delegation in Singapore, had suffered a heart attack was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland.

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