{"id":139977,"date":"2018-06-12T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-talks-were-honest-and-direct-us-president-says\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:31:53","slug":"trump-kim-summit-talks-were-honest-and-direct-us-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-talks-were-honest-and-direct-us-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Kim summit: Talks were &#8216;honest and direct&#8217;, US president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069tn3l.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionKim: &quot;The world will see a major change&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US President Donald Trump says his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that ended in a joint agreement were &quot;honest, direct and productive&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump said he would halt &quot;war games&quot; while Mr Kim had promised to destroy a missile testing site.<\/p>\n<p>Their agreement also included a commitment from Mr Kim to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time a sitting US president and North Korean leader have met.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LIVE: Follow the latest summit updates<\/li>\n<li>Handshake moment explained in pictures<\/li>\n<li>Diplomacy on a plate: What did they eat?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pair shook hands, held talks together and ate lunch accompanied by advisers.<\/p>\n<p>It caps a remarkable turnaround for the two, who only last year were engaged in angry threats.<\/p>\n<h2>What did they agree?<\/h2>\n<p>The summit centred on nuclear disarmament and reducing tensions. <\/p>\n<p>The agreement said the two countries would co-operate towards &quot;new relations&quot; while the US would provide &quot;security guarantees&quot; to North Korea. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump-Kim summit explained <\/li>\n<li>Full text of the signed statement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On nuclear weapons, Mr Kim &quot;reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the agreement to reporters, Mr Trump said that Mr Kim had agreed to &quot;verified&quot; denuclearisation - a key US demand before the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump also said that he had raised the issue of human rights with Mr Kim, who runs a totalitarian regime with extreme censorship and forced-labour camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionKim: &quot;The world will see a major change&quot; US President Donald Trump says his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that ended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139977","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\/139977","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=139977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}