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The summit is gasping, but three men will hope to bring it back to life
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(From left) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean President Moon Jae In and US President Donald Trump.
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Rahul Pathak
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SINGAPORE - In the end it was a note of regret, the acknowledgement that a historic denouement was agonisingly out of reach, that punctuated this episode like an ellipsis.
History will have to wait, but President Donald Trump was right to call off a summit that had been arranged too impulsively and may well have ended in tears. Even so, it has opened up possibilities and elicited sentiments that were unthinkable just months ago.
