President Donald Trump Meets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un

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Just six months after trading threats about their respective “nuclear buttons,” President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un finally met in Singapore on Tuesday morning, June 12, 2018. It will be the first-ever meeting between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un meet in Singapore
President Trump shook hands with Kim Jong Un at the start of a first-of-its-kind meeting of a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.

Against a backdrop of U.S. and North Korean flags, the two first shook hands for about 12 seconds, and Trump at one point grabbed Kim’s arm as they posed for pictures. Before sitting down for lunch, Trump joked with photographers, saying, “Very nice, getting a good picture everybody so we look nice and handsome and thin?”
They did not smile, but moments later exchanged grins and another handshake as they stopped in a colonnade on their way to a nearby room for their first one-on-one meeting.


A few minutes later, as he first sat with Kim, Trump told reporters, “We will have a terrific relationship, I have no doubt.” He predicted that the summit will be “really successful.”
“The old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward, but we’ve overcome all of them and we are here today,” Kim said.

About two hours into the summit, Trump and Kim are chatting during their “working lunch.”

During the expanded meeting, Trump reiterated that it’s been an “honor” to meet with Kim, said “we’ll solve the big problem, the big dilemma, that until this point has been unable to be resolved,” and shook Kim’s hand again.

After meeting with Kim privately for about half an hour, Trump declared that they have an “excellent relationship.”

In March, Trump accepted Kim’s invitation to meet, breaking with predecessors who had shunned any type of a summit without major concessions from North Korea or multilateral talks that included a host of other Asian countries.
Trump has blamed past presidents for failing to resolve tensions with North Korea as it has pursued a nuclear program, testing missiles in displays of posturing and provocation.

Source: NY MAG

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