The historic reality show, featuring a cast of thousands (mostly journalists), is over, and the principals have returned home.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has seen firsthand a large global city outside China, with Singapore providing an inspiring paradigm for what a non-nuclear Pyongyang might be some day.

U.S. President Donald Trump has come to realize again that Asia is a more pleasant place for him to be than Europe, or even many parts of his own North American neighborhood, as the recent Quebec summit of Group of Seven leaders so clearly proved.