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Kim Jong-un- Donald Trump summit in Singapore
South Korean Airirang News
Fox News
US
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are
meeting in Singapore to discuss a peace treaty and denuclearization
of the Korean Peninsula. It's the first ever such summit between the
heads of the two countries.
Trump
and Kim are scheduled to start their meeting at around 9:00 am local
time, and they will spend the next hour talking directly, accompanied
only by their translators, before they allow their advisers and staff
to join the meeting.
The
summit is a product of months of diplomacy, going back to the meeting
between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the end of
March. CIA chief Mike Pompeo, now secretary of state, secretly met
with Kim shortly afterward, setting in motion the sometimes tense
negotiations that led to Monday’s meeting at the very highest
level.
After
he took office in January 2017, Trump took a hard line against North
Korea, rolling out a campaign of severe UN sanctions and trade
blockades dubbed “maximum pressure” to get Pyongyang to abandon
its pursuit of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic
missiles. By September, the two leaders were calling each other
names, with Trump dubbing Kim “Little Rocket Man” and Kim
responding by calling Trump a “dotard.”
The
US and North Korea are still technically at war, and have been since
1953, when an armistice paused the three-year conflict that had
devastated the Korean Peninsula and at one point saw US and Chinese
troops openly fighting each other.
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