TOKYO -- Although U.S. President Donald Trump's now famous Twitter invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday looked almost spontaneous, it seems he had always envisioned a Panmunjom handshake as the climax of his Asia trip.
At the Osaka Group of 20 summit, as the world held its breath for the big meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, neither Xi nor South Korean President Moon Jae-in nor Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were able to ascertain the U.S. president's true ambitions.