The US-North Korea summit falls victim to bipolar rhetoric.

SERIOUSLY, is anyone really shocked that the much-ballyhooed Summit-of-the-Century between President Trump and North Korean President Kim Jong-un now hangs in the balance?

From the start, this highly unusual meeting of the minds was undertaken in an unorthodox way, to put it mildly. Negotiated often by tweet and news communique rather than through established diplomatic channels, it began with threats and name-calling. Trump sought laughs from his base by dismissing the North Korean leader as “Little Rocket Man”, and Kim responded by calling Trump a “dotard”. When Kim referred to a Trump speech as “reckless remarks by an old lunatic”, Trump asked “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old’, when I would NEVER call him short and fat?”