Donald Trump has accepted a North Korean invitation to meet with Kim Jong-un "as soon as possible". 

The orange clown dropped hints of a big announcement to the White House Press Corps just before the evening news in the US.  Shortly thereafter, the visiting South Korean National security adviser Chung Eui-yong called reporters outside the White House and announced: "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he's committed to denuclearization", and, "Trump appreciated the briefing, and said he would meet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization."  The regime has reportedly agreed to stop nuclear testing as long as talks continue.

The time and place of any such meeting has not been announced, and the most likely locations would be the Panmunjom treaty village straddling the border dividing the Koreas.  A third party nation would also be a possibility, since neither Kim's nor Trump's advisors would tell their bosses to visit the other's capital:  Possibilities include Beijing, capital of North Korea's only ally; Moscow; Switzerland, where Kim was educated as a boy; or Sweden, which is militarily non-aligned and has acted as a go-between for Washington and Pyongyang in the past.

But the possibility of disaster can't be overlooked, since both men have threatened to destroy each other's countries over the past year.  North Korea has referred to Trump as a "mentally deranged dotard" and Trump has labelled Kim "little rocket man". 

There is skepticism for North Korea's motives, and over the wisdom of having Donald Trump meet a North Korean leader as an equal after decades of between the two countries.

"To be clear - we need to talk to North Korea," said Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury institute of international studies at Monterey.  "But Kim is not inviting Trump so that he can surrender North Korea's weapons.  Kim is inviting Trump to demonstrate that his investment in nuclear and missile capabilities has forced the United States to treat him as an equal."

There are also severe doubts about whether Trump, who fancies himself as a master deal-maker, actually has the skills to negotiate the Untied States' most dangerous foreign policy challenge:

"We can always hope," said Robert E. Kelly, North Korea expert at South Korea's Pusan National University, "But it is just as reasonable to fear that Trump, the reality TV star who somehow stumbled into the presidency for which he is woefully unfit, will wander from decades of joint US-South Korea policy, about which he naturally knows nothing, and make some kind of deal for a 'win' that no other US official would endorse."