Tag: North Korea

N. Korea’s Kim knows denuclearization must be ‘quick’: Pompeo

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s Kim Jong Un understands that denuclearization must happen “quickly”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, warning there will be no sanctions relief for Pyongyang until the process is complete. Washington remained committed to the “complete, verifiable and irreversible” denuclearization of North Korea, Pompeo added, after the joint statement from the historic US-North Korea summit in Singapore drew criticism for lack of detail on the key issue. “We […]

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Trump hits critics of his summit with Kim, says “there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea”

  (Eagle News) – United States President Donald Trump hit his critics who had nothing good to say about his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, as he stressed the importance of his talk with Kim which he said prevented a “potential nuclear catastrophe.” Trump pointed out that before the historic summit with Kim on Tuesday, June 12, many were talking about conciliation and peace and had wanted the meeting to […]

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S. Korea newspapers welcome summit as ‘first step’ toward peace

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Most South Korean newspapers reacted with cautious optimism Wednesday to the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore, although one conservative daily denounced the agreement it produced as “absurd”. The centrist Hankook daily noted that the post-summit joint statement signed by the US president and North Korean leader on Tuesday had omitted Washington’s demand for a “complete, verifiable, irreversible” denuclearisation of the North and lacked a […]

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Kim invites Trump to visit Pyongyang as North hails ‘radical switchover’

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Kim Jong Un invited Donald Trump to visit North Korea during their historic summit and the US President accepted, Pyongyang state media reported Wednesday, calling it the start of a “radical switchover” in the nuclear-armed Cold War foes’ fraught relations. The unprecedented encounter in Singapore Tuesday saw the leader of the world’s most powerful democracy shake hands with the third generation scion of a dynastic dictatorship, standing as equals […]

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Trump, Kim hail historic summit; questions over way forward

by Andrew BEATTY / Sebastien BERGER Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore – Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hailed their historic summit Tuesday as a breakthrough in relations between Cold War foes, but their agreement was short on details about the key issue of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. The unprecedented encounter in Singapore saw the leader of the world’s most powerful democracy shake hands with the third generation scion of a dynastic dictatorship, standing as equals in […]

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Trump’s vow to end US-SKorea drills catches Pentagon off guard

by Thomas WATKINS Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – Pentagon officials were surprised Tuesday after President Donald Trump vowed at his summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un to cancel “provocative” joint military drills with South Korea. Following the unprecedented meeting in Singapore, Trump stunned observers when he said continuing the exercises routinely held between the US and South Korea would be “inappropriate” while Washington fleshes out a comprehensive deal with Pyongyang. “We will […]

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Trump says he will stop ‘war games’ with S. Korea

  Singapore (AFP) — The US will stop holding joint military exercises on the Korean peninsula, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, making a major concession to North Korea after his summit with Kim Jong Un. Washington and Seoul are security allies, with 28,500 US troops stationed in the South to defend it from its neighbor which invaded in 1950. They hold joint military exercises every year that infuriate Pyongyang, which has long demanded an end […]

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Trump says ‘a lot of progress’ made in historic Kim meeting

by Andrew BEATTY / Richard CARTER Agence France Presse SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday there had been a “lot of progress” in his historic talks with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, and the pair were expected to sign a document together. The first-ever summit between sitting leaders of the two Cold War foes went “better than anybody could have expected”, Trump said as he strolled in the gardens of […]

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Warm words from North Korea on Cold War frontier

by Ed JONES Agence France Presse PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AFP) — On the world’s last Cold War frontier, where troops have long faced off at the truce village that divides the two Koreas, propaganda broadcasts have fallen silent and soldiers from the North are hopeful a historic summit will herald a new era for their country. The blue huts of Panmunjom are emblematic of the truce that stopped the fighting in the Korean War, and […]

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Tearful Rodman claims vindication for Kim ties

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Basketball star and improbable North Korean envoy Dennis Rodman broke down in tears live on television Tuesday as he recounted the hostility he faced for meeting dictator Kim Jong Un. Amid a landmark summit between President Donald Trump and the young North Korean strongman, Rodman appeared on CNN to voice hope, and vindication. “I got death threats,” Rodman said breaking down in tears. “I couldn’t even go home … I had […]

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Kim says N. Korea and US have overcome obstacles to hold summit

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — North Korea and the United States have overcome the obstacles of a difficult history to hold their summit in Singapore, the North’s leader Kim Jong Un said as the unprecedented meeting opened Tuesday. “The way to come to here was not easy,” Kim said, sitting at a table with Trump. “The old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward but we overcame all of them and we are […]

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In photos: Trump, Kim handshake starts historic summit; Trump predicts “terrific relationship” ahead

  United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history on Tuesday, June 12, becoming the first sitting US and North Korean leaders to meet and shake hands, as they seek to end a tense decades-old nuclear stand-off. Trump predicted he would have a “terrific relationship” with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Tuesday, as the pair met for a historic Singapore summit. “We will have a terrific relationship, I have […]

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