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Commentators have been trying to make sense of the extraordinary announcement that the leaders of the US and North Korea will hold a summit. That US President Donald Trump and North Korean president Kim Jong Un will sit at the same table has triggered volumes of commentary and speculation. Maria Ryan cuts through the noise and weighs up the pros and cons of the possible encounter while Stephen Benedict Dyson looks at what makes Kim Jong Un tick.

Europe and American thinking has dominated the way in which psychology was developed. Nicolas Geeraert unpacks how differenct cultures are beginning to have an impact on this history.

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Q&A: What might come of a Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un?

Maria Ryan, University of Nottingham

Thanks to South Korea, there is a chance for peace with North Korea. Whether the Trump administration can take it is another matter.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. KCNA/via Reuters

What makes Kim Jong Un tick?

Stephen Benedict Dyson, University of Connecticut

A scholar who has profiled leaders like Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin says there is a method to understanding the madness.

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