{"id":139826,"date":"2018-06-12T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-us-and-north-korean-leaders-hold-historic-talks\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:21:48","slug":"trump-kim-summit-us-and-north-korean-leaders-hold-historic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-us-and-north-korean-leaders-hold-historic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Kim summit: US and North Korean leaders hold historic talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump Kim\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8A45\/production\/_101979353_de27.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have become the first sitting US president and North Korean leader to meet, an unprecedented development after a year of exchanging threats. <\/p>\n<p>The pair shook hands at a luxury hotel in Singapore&#039;s Sentosa island after months of diplomatic twists and turns. <\/p>\n<p>They are now set to discuss defusing tensions and nuclear disarmament. <\/p>\n<p>Analysts are split on what it will achieve. Some see it as propaganda win for Mr Kim, others a path to peace. <\/p>\n<p>The two men walked towards each other and shared a handshake in front of US and North Korean flags. <\/p>\n<p>In brief initial comments in front of the press, the US president predicted a &quot;terrific relationship&quot; with Mr Kim. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We overcame all the odds to come here,&quot; Mr Kim said,  South Korea&#039;s Yonhap news agency reports. <\/p>\n<p>The leaders will now hold a one-to-one meeting, with translators, before a working lunch.  <\/p>\n<p>The talks - unimaginable just a few months ago - will focus on North Korea&#039;s controversial nuclear programme. <\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story - more to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have become the first sitting US president and North Korean leader to meet, an unprecedented development after a year of exchanging threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}