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Trump sets foot in North Korea, agrees with Kim to resume talks

1st July 2019
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U.S. President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea.

Trump met its leader, Kim Jong Un, on Sunday in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks, and expressed hopes for peace.

The two men met for the third time in just a year on the old Cold War frontier that for decades has symbolised the hostility between their countries, which are technically still at war.

Trump, escorted by Kim, briefly crossed a military demarcation line into the North.

Moments later, they returned to the South Korean side and joined South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in for a brief chat, marking an unprecedented three-way gathering.

Trump and Kim held a closed door meeting for nearly an hour.

“The meeting was a very good one, very strong … We agreed to work out details,” Trump said. “We’ll see what can happen,” he added.

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 that he is in no rush for a deal.

Trump and Kim met for the first time in Singapore in June 2018, and agreed to improve relations and work toward 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.

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Kim looked relaxed and smiled as he chatted with Trump amidst a throng of press photographers, aides and bodyguards.

“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 toward a new future, Kim said.

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

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

“It’s a great day for the world,” he said.

“We moved mountains” to arrange the meeting at such short notice, he said.

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 said he had “plenty of time” and was in “no rush” to reach a deal.

“We want to get it right,” he said.

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

The DMZ was set up after the 1950 to 53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a truce, leaving North Korea and a U.S. led UN forces still technically at war. (Reuters/NAN)

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