Kim Jong Un has his prestigious photo, and President Trump has his piece of paper.

At this first stage, it’s clear Kim is the overwhelming winner. Perhaps Trump will soon show us his own win — wide-ranging inspector access to North Korea — but Kim holds the strategic initiative thus far. After all, Kim has won international prestige, time towards covert completion of his intercontinental ballistic missile warhead vehicle, and the extraordinary suspension of U.S. military exercises in South Korea. In return, Trump has won promises and the repatriation of U.S. war dead, but nothing else. And while that repatriation is valuable, it is not relevant to the exigent purpose of this summit: removing a critical national security threat.