{"id":140055,"date":"2018-06-12T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-us-president-hails-deal-after-historic-talks\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:04:54","slug":"trump-kim-summit-us-president-hails-deal-after-historic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-kim-summit-us-president-hails-deal-after-historic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Kim summit: US president hails deal after historic talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069tc5f.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTrump Kim: The moment they shook hands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">US President Donald Trump says his historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that ended in a joint agreement were &quot;tremendous&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The signed document includes a pledge from Mr Kim to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But in an extraordinary media conference later, Mr Trump announced details not in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would halt US military exercises in South Korea, something widely seen as a concession.<\/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 meeting was the first time a sitting US president has met North Korea&#039;s leader, and caps a remarkable turnaround for the two.<\/p>\n<p>Last year saw the pair sling insults at each other, while North Korea conducted several ballistic missile tests in defiance of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>For both men the meeting brought much to gain as well as considerable risk.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is seen by North Korea as a way of bringing legitimacy to a nation long regarded as a pariah. Should Mr Trump resolve the North&#039;s nuclear threat, he would have achieved something none of his predecessors came close to.<\/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>Full text of the signed statement<\/li>\n<li>Trump-Kim summit explained <\/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>Observers say the document lacks substance, in particular on how denuclearisation would be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking to reporters after, Mr Trump said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The US would suspend &quot;provocative&quot; war games it holds with South Korea. Mr Trump said he wanted to see US troops withdraw from the South. A spokesperson for the US forces said they had yet to receive any new guidance<\/li>\n<li>On denuclearisation, he said that Mr Kim had agreed to it being &quot;verified&quot;, a key US demand ahead of the meeting<\/li>\n<li>Mr Trump said Mr Kim had also agreed to destroy a &quot;major missile engine testing site&quot;<\/li>\n<li>But he said sanctions would remain in place for now and argued &quot;we haven&#039;t given up anything&quot;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several reporters asked whether Mr Trump had raised the issue of human rights with Mr Kim, who runs a totalitarian regime with extreme censorship and forced-labour camps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Missed chance to discuss human rights, says defector<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US president said he had, and did not retract his description of Mr Kim as &quot;talented&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p069tx3z.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionTrump: &quot;The past does not have to define our future&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&quot;Well, he is very talented,&quot; Mr Trump said. &quot;Anybody that takes over a situation like he did at 26 years of age and is able to run it and run it tough. I don&#039;t say he was nice.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>What&#039;s the reaction been?<\/h2>\n<p>Largely positive. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who held his own meeting with Mr Kim earlier this year, said the &quot;two Koreas and US will write new history of peace and co-operation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman, though, also said the &quot;exact meaning and intention&quot; of what Mr Trump had said &quot;needs to be assessed&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>China, North Korea&#039;s only major diplomatic and economic ally, also said the meeting created a &quot;new history&quot;. The foreign ministry said sanctions on North Korea could be eased if it stuck to UN resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praised President Trump&#039;s &quot;leadership and effort&quot;, saying he supported North Korea&#039;s pledge on denuclearisation as &quot;a step towards the comprehensive resolution of issues around North Korea&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia warned that the &quot;devil is in the detail&quot; and Iran said North Korea should not trust the US. Mr Trump recently pulled the US out of a nuclear deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<h2>How the day unfolded<\/h2>\n<p>The summit began with a striking image, unimaginable just months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The two men walked towards each other and firmly gripped each other&#039;s hands in front of US and North Korean flags.<\/p>\n<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>Sitting alongside each other, ahead of a one-on-one meeting, the pair appeared relaxed against the odds.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was not easy to get here,&quot; Mr Kim said. &quot;There were obstacles but we overcame them to be here.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The two men, accompanied only by interpreters, spoke for a little under 40 minutes. They were then joined by small delegations of advisers for a working lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Over lunch they shared a mix of Western and Korean dishes, including stuffed cucumbers and Daegu jorim, a soy-braised fish dish.<\/p>\n<p>              The best way to get news on the go<br \/>Download the BBC News App.                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/19854\/assets\/app-project-assets\/bbc_news_logo.svg\"\/>                                       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/19854\/assets\/app-project-assets\/google_play_store.svg\"\/>                              <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/newsspec\/19854\/assets\/app-project-assets\/ios_app_store.svg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionTrump Kim: The moment they shook hands US President Donald Trump says his historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that ended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140055","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\/140055","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=140055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}