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ne Small Step For Trump
And Kim — One Giant Leap
For World Peace.” That’s how
the Eurasia Group, a political
risk consultancy with offices
around the world, described
it. Foreign Policy, an elite mag-
azine that focuses on global
opinion and global politics,
saw it somewhat differently:
“One Small Step for a Pres-
ident, One Giant Leap for Pyongyang”
was its headline.
What they were reacting to was US
president Donald Trump’s decision to
meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un and then make history by walking
across the border with Kim into North
Korea on Sunday, 30 June. The two men
posed for handshakes before talking foranniversary
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nearly an hour in the demilitarized zone
that divides the two Koreas.
And where did those “one small step,
one giant leap” comparisons come from?
They were inspired by the astronaut Neil
Armstrong, who was the commander of
the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission in- On 20 July that year, Armstrong
became the first person to walk on the
moon, and as he did so, he said: “That’s
one small step for [a] man, one giant leap
for mankind.”
As the world celebrates the 50th anni-
versary of that extraordinary American
achievement, the symbolism and word-
play of Armstrong’s sentence were im-
possible for many commentators to resist.
But anything Donald Trump can do,
Xi Jinping, China’s president, can do
better or, at least, earlier. On 20 June, Xi