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'In the run up to the summit, Trump had indicated that he might strike a nuclear deal in the course of a single meeting or over several days, but as it transpired, Trump departed Singapore soon after the meeting.'

'This raises questions if his aspirations for an ambitious outcome had been scaled back,' says Rajaram Panda.

IMAGE: Rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. We can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place,' Donald Trump said last September of the North Korean dictator who he called 'a very talented man' after his summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, June 12, 2018. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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What preceded the summit proposal was immersed in a plenty of uncertainty, lurking doubts if the summit would ever take place.

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The statement was almost immediately endorsed by China, North Korea's principal ally and benefactor.

Earlier, Trump announced that both he and Kim signed an unspecified document, which he called 'pretty comprehensive'.

From his side, Kim announced that both sides decided to 'leave the past' behind and that 'the world shall see a major change'.

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Hailing his 'excellent' relationship with Kim, Trump predicted that both leaders will 'solve' the Korean Peninsula stand off and that the 40 minute one on one meeting was a 'tremendous success'.

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It was not known what exactly both discussed during their one on one meeting, though North Korea's denuclearisation was on the agenda.

Trump said his talks with Kim were 'better than anybody could imagine.'

From the lighter side, Kim remarked through an interpreter, 'Many people in the world will think of this as a form of fantasy from a science fiction movie', before heading for the airport after the signing ceremony.

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Both sides also agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war from the conflict between North and South Korea, and the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

However, analysts expressed disappointment with the vague nature of the agreement, limited scope and the lack of specific details.

Robert Kelly, professor of political science at Pusan National University, felt the text is 'even thinner than most sceptics anticipated.' Kelly expected that Trump would bargain for canada goose factory outlet and get at least some missiles or a site closure or something concrete.

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