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Presented by The Boeing Company :   View in browser   Presented By The Boeing Company   Axios AM By Mike Allen · Jun 30, 2019 🥞 Happy Sunday — savor the last day of June. Today's Smart Brevity count: 893 words ... 3.5 minutes! Was this email forwarded to you? Get your own! Sign up here .     1 big thing: Trump steps into North Korea Photo: Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images/Getty Images President Trump today became the first U.S. commander-in-chief to step onto the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone — the heavily guarded neutral strip dividing the Korean Peninsula between freedom and totalitarianism. Trump heartily shook hands with Kim Jong-un and patted the North Korean dictator on the back during a last-minute encounter that followed a presidential trip to Japan and South Korea. "Big moment. Big progress," Trump s

Presented by AT&T Business:   View in browser   Presented By AT&T Business   Axios AM Deep Dive By Mike Allen · Jun 29, 2019 🏙 Today's Deep Dive goes inside the global "smart cities" race to redefine how we live in the 21st century. Coming July 10: Kim Hart's new Axios Cities newsletter! Sign up here . Smart brevity count: 1,179 words (<5 minutes).     1 big thing: The human hurdles to smart cities Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios   It turns out that one of the biggest hurdles to the dream of hyperconnected "smart cities" isn't technology — it's humans, Kim writes . The big picture: Making cities smarter is more of a business model and governance challenge than a technological one. Aligning the interests of everyone involved — city councils, telecom firms, utilit