The New Yorker: “Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un—the leaders of two countries that have technically been at war for the past seventy years—will make history, on Tuesday, just by shaking hands.”

+ Evan Osnos: “Kim is under growing pressure to raise the living standards of the population. In his attempt to unleash the economy and hold on to his dictatorship, he seems to be taking a lesson from China’s Communist Party: change, or die.” Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un’s Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History.

+ NYT: The Nine Steps Required to Really Disarm North Korea.