US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet and shake hands in Singapore, creating history as they attempt to negotiate an end to a decades-old nuclear stand-off. The pair, Kim in his thirties and consolidating his dictatorship, Trump in his seventies and struggling to bend Washington to his impetuous will, are unlikely protagonists, both instantly recognisable, so much larger-than-life as to be cartoonish. The two men strode toward each other and shared the momentous handshake beneath the white-washed walls of an upscale hotel in neutral Singapore, before sitting down for a half-day of meetings with major ramifications for the world.