Trump meets with Kim, crosses border into North Korea

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the third time on Sunday amid hopes for new talks at ending North Korea's nuclear programmes.

 

Trump met Kim on the southern side of the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas.

 

Trump briefly crossed the inter-Korean military border into the North, becoming the first ever U.S. president to set foot in the reclusive country.

 

(Reporting by Robert Rampton, Hyonhee Shin, Jack Kim and Joyce Lee)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-30

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Trump meets North Korea's Kim on DMZ between the two Koreas

By Roberta Rampton

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas on Sunday, shaking hands warmly and both expressing hopes for peace.

 

It was the third meeting between the two leaders in just over a year and will raise hopes for a revival of stalled nuclear talks.

 

Trump, escorted by Kim, briefly crossed a military demarcation line that had for years represented a tense Cold War border, into the North, becoming the first ever sitting U.S. president to set foot in the reclusive country.

 

Moments later they returned to the South Korean side and joined President Moon Jae-in for a brief chat, marking an unprecedented three-way gathering. Trump and Kim then held a bilateral closed-door meeting.

 

"It's a great day for the world," Trump said as he and Kim stood together amidst a throng of press photographers, aides and bodyguards.

 

Kim looked relaxed and smiled as he chatted with Trump.

 

"I was surprised to see your message that you wanted to meet me," he told Trump, referring to Trump's Saturday offer, in a Twitter posting, to meet.

 

"This is an expression of his willingness" to work towards a new future, Kim said.

 

Kim said it would be a great honour if Trump visited his capital of Pyongyang.

 

"To cross that line was a great honour," Trump said, referring to his brief incursion into the North Korean side of the DMZ.

 

Trump arrived in South Korea late on Saturday for talks with Moon after attending a Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, during which he made the surprise, spur-of-the-moment offer to meet Kim, who accepted it.

 

Trump and Kim met in the so-called Joint Security Area (JSA), which is patrolled by soldiers from both Koreas. Moon joined the two after their initial handshakes.

 

Trump and Kim met for the first time in Singapore in June last year, and agreed to improve relations and work towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

 

But there has been little progress since then.

 

A second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February broke down after the two sides failed to narrow differences between a U.S. demand for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and a North Korean demand for sanctions relief.

 

Trump had earlier told Moon that he had "plenty of time" and was in "no rush" to reach a deal.

 

North Korea has pursued nuclear and missile programmes for years in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, and easing tensions with North Korea is one of the U.S. president's top foreign policy priorities.

 

(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin, Roberta Rampton and Joyce Lee; Editing by Jack Kim, Robert Birsel)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-30

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So Trump sent Kim a private message saying "Lets upset the Chinese. We both need some concessions from them...."

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Kim said it would be a great honour if Trump visited his capital of Pyongyang.

 

"To cross that line was a great honour," Trump said, referring to his brief incursion into the North Korean side of the DMZ.

All you need to do to get what you want from Biff is flatter him. 

3 minutes ago, zydeco said:

All you need to do to get what you want from Biff is flatter him. 

Who is "Biff" ?

Kim or Trump ?

Is that Michael Jackson in the photo , far right ?

2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Who is "Biff" ?

Kim or Trump ?

Sort of interesting that someone would be unsure whether "flattering Biff" applies to a bloodthirsty communist dictator or the president of the US, isn't it?

13 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Is that Michael Jackson in the photo , far right ?

Not sure but it's Kate Bush just behind them ????

U.S., North Korea agree at DMZ to resume stalled nuclear talks: Trump

 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

PANMUNJOM, South Korea, (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed on Sunday to resume stalled nuclear talks when they met in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas.

 

"The meeting was a very good one, very strong .. We'll see what can happen," Trump said after his talks with Kim.

 

He said both sides would set up teams to push forward stalled talks aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, adding he was in no rush for a deal.

 

(Writng by Robert Birsel)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-30

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5 minutes ago, webfact said:

U.S., North Korea agree at DMZ to resume stalled nuclear talks: Trump

 

 

 

 

Looks like Kim boy came with the Kung F u grip.

Edited June 30, 20197 yr by zydeco

History in the making. An incredible day for Trump and potentially the world at large. His determination can be measured against his predecessor, who didn't go to North Korea, but send retired basketball player and general freak, Dennis Rodman, instead. Seriously, you just can't compare the statesmanship. Cue the awards...

Good he did that, part of the job.

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said both sides would set up teams to push forward stalled talks aimed at getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, adding he was in no rush for a deal.

trump’s never in a rush to go into the minutiae of a deal...it really cuts into his golfing time. 

54 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Who is "Biff" ?

Kim or Trump ?

Given how Kim made a fool of Trump at the first summit, which one do you think it is?

Well, gotta admit, he is the first Presidente to do it. Kudos to him.

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Trump meets with Kim, crosses border into North Korea

 

... and then The South let him back in ????

 

5 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Well, gotta admit, he is the first Presidente to do it. Kudos to him.

Because being the first is necessarily a smart thing to be?

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Taking it slowly allows the N.K. population to adjust their thinking and feel that they are the winners in a potentially win win situation.  They are officially still at war.  The first step needs to be ending the war, then they can accept ending further war prep. missiles etc.  Well played Mr. President.

Looks like there is keen interest in Mr Kim's enormous trousers from one eager photographer ???? 

Now that would have been an intellectual conversation-between the chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and a US reality television star. All that was missing was their pal Dennis Rodman

As the 2020 election approaches, every leader with a vested interest in seeing the West divided will increasingly come out to try and make Trump look good in an attempt to see him reelected.  He's done more to destabilise the West than they and their predecessors could ever have hoped for, and they aren't finished with him yet.  Trump's being played by these men like a saggy orange bagpipe, a tuneless windbag, spouting poison, pestilence and prejudice, yet he, and his supporters, fingers firmly in ears to avoid hearing the list of proven charges against him, lap up the cacophony and scream for more.

Trump is playing into the hands of this murderer.  Trump needs a photo op. desperately to bolster his sagging poll numbers back home, but we shall see.

2 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

As the 2020 election approaches, every leader with a vested interest in seeing the West divided will increasingly come out to try and make Trump look good in an attempt to see him reelected.  He's done more to destabilise the West than they and their predecessors could ever have hoped for, and they aren't finished with him yet.  Trump's being played by these men like a saggy orange bagpipe, a tuneless windbag, spouting poison, pestilence and prejudice, yet he, and his supporters, fingers firmly in ears to avoid hearing the list of proven charges against him, lap up the cacophony and scream for more.

Yes; Trump is such a hatchet man, developing on a working relationship with a rogue state.

Unlike Obama, who gave billions to a another rogue state, while that state has shouted "DEATH to AMERICA", before, during, and after the payout! 

 

Just now, Curt1591 said:

Yes; Trump is such a hatchet man, developing on a working relationship with a rogue state.

Unlike Obama, who gave billions to a another rogue state, while that state has shouted "DEATH to AMERICA", before, during, and after the payout! 

 

And managed to get Russia and China to sign on to an agreement that stopped Iranian development of nuclear weapons. Obama actually accomplished something without meeting the Iranians face to face. Because Obama didn't think diplomacy was all about him. 

5 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

And managed to get Russia and China to sign on to an agreement that stopped Iranian development of nuclear weapons. Obama actually accomplished something without meeting the Iranians face to face. Because Obama didn't think diplomacy was all about him. 

Maybe you're on to something with this idea of not meeting face to face.  Obama met with Putin and look what happened.  Xi personally promised Obama no militarization of the SCS and look what happened. 

3 minutes ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Maybe you're on to something with this idea of not meeting face to face.  Obama met with Putin and look what happened.  Xi personally promised Obama no militarization of the SCS and look what happened. 

And what was Obama negotiating with Putin about?

And when Xi broke his word, did Obama continue insist the he and Xi were in love? Did he deny his intelligence agencies assessment of the situation?

17 minutes ago, Curt1591 said:

Yes; Trump is such a hatchet man, developing on a working relationship with a rogue state.

Unlike Obama, who gave billions to a another rogue state, while that state has shouted "DEATH to AMERICA", before, during, and after the payout! 

 

Nothing was given, that money was theirs.

For Trump haters no matter what he does is ever good enough and they always find a way to turn positive into a negative .

 

Tomorrow Trump will find cure for cancer , haters will most likely turn it into biggest tragedy ever as world could get over populated