Profound Views: North Korea’s official media, which have been quiet about tomorrow’s summit, have reported that leader Kim Jong-un is in Singapore to meet President Trump to discuss forging a new relationship.

Both Kim and Trump are in Singapore now preparing for the meeting. A dispatch by the state-run Korean Central News Agency says the two will exchange “wide-ranging and profound views” on establishing a new relationship. The report notes the summit is being held “under the great attention and expectation of the whole world.”

Representatives of both countries have been meeting in advance trying to reach a nuclear disarmament agreement that can be rubber-stamped by Trump and Kim.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week” that just by getting the meeting Kim comes up a winner. “To the extent that Kim Jong-un has already gone from international pariah to being normalized internationally, you have to say that he’s had some success here,” Menendez said. He also said that getting a nuclear disarmament deal isn’t the hard part. Enforcing it is. North Korea has made deals before and ignored them.

A Special Place: The fallout continues from President Trump’s abrasive departure from the weekend G-7 meeting. Trump has continued his twitter attacks, ranting on about NATO, trade, and Justin Trudeau.

He posted from Singapore, “Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay? Not fair to the PEOPLE of America! $800 Billion Trade Deficit…”

Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow said yesterday that President Trump pulled out of a joint statement by the Group of 7 because a “betrayal” by the Canadian prime minister threatened to make Trump appear weak before his summit meeting tomorrow with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

Kudlow said Trump had no choice after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would not be “bullied” by the United States on trade. Trump “is not going to let a Canadian prime minister push him around,” Kudlow said, adding, “He is not going to permit any show of weakness on a trip to negotiate with North Korea.”

It’s tough out there in the school yard.

Peter Navarro, the president’s top trade adviser, said on “Fox News Sunday,” “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door.”

Jennifer Rubin writes in The Washington Post, “The president, unmoved by history, ignorant of facts and guided by sycophants, has not been forced to grapple with the real world nor to hear views that don’t coincide with his twisted worldview, in which allies are ripping us off and aggressive strongmen are to be admired and accommodated.”

And here’s former CIA director John Brennan tweeting, “Your wrong-headed protectionist policies & antics are damaging our global standing as well as our national interests. Your worldview does not represent American ideals. To allies & friends: Be patient, Mr. Trump is a temporary aberration. The America you once knew will return.”

Statuary: “The Band’s Visit,” a musical about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded for a night in Israel, swept the Tony awards, winning 10 prizes including best new musical. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a sequel to the seven-novel series, won best play. And in a big upset, “Once on This Island” defeated “Carousel” and “My Fair Lady” to win best musical revival.

Sadly, there’s a Trump angle to this. Introducing an award, actor Robert de Niro made headlines from the stage when he said, “I’m gonna say one thing: Fuck Trump” The crowd cheered for nearly half a minute.

Hey, waddaya gunna do, ya know what I’m sayin’?

The Obit Page: Danny Kirwan, a guitarist and singer-songwriter for the enduring rock band Fleetwood Mac in its early years, has died in London at age 68. Kirwan joined the band in 1968 and his work was featured on five albums starting with “Then Play On.” He wrote half the tracks on the band’s 1972 album, “Bare Trees,” before leaving the group.

Hiding in Sight: In 1983 Air Force Capt. William Howard Hughes Jr., an expert in self-destruct mechanisms for missiles, disappeared. Hughes, then 33, had withdrawn $28,000 from 19 different banks. Spy theorists have long wondered whether he defected or was abducted by the Russians or some other hostile country.

His disappearance would come up occasionally when there was some dramatic rocket or missile failure, like the space shuttle, as speculators wondered whether there was some connection.

Recently the State Department investigated inconsistencies in a passport application for a man named Barry O’Beirne, and that led the Air Force to Hughes where he lived in California. He told investigators he had deserted because, he was “depressed about being in the Air Force.”

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