1. “The fact that he would want to look the guy in the eye is very Trumpian.”

That was a national security scholar at the Heritage Foundation on President Trump’s decision to meet with Kim Jong-un of North Korea in the next two months. Above, people walked by a news broadcast in Tokyo.

Our Interpreter columnist says that in the short term, planned talks reduce the chance of war. But that doesn’t mean they’ll result in a deal to dismantle the North’s nuclear program.