Trump's fast and furious road to meeting Kim Jong Un: A timeline of events

Donald Trump is making no guarantees about the tete-a-tete, vowing to walk away, if the two men can't cut a deal.

Even more so than with other issues, Donald Trump’s approach to North Korea has been one of extremes: Threatening to destroy Kim Jong Un’s country one day, offering to meet up the next.

On Tuesday, that strategy will be put to the test when he meets Kim for an historic first summit between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader. Trump’s making no guarantees about the tete-a-tete, vowing to walk away, if the two men can’t cut a deal.

Here’s a look at how Trump and Kim got to this high-stakes encounter:

2016

November: Days after Trump’s surprise