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The Trump-Kim summit and its aftermath
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/06/2018
» The unprecedented and dramatic summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un, the current leaders of the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (otherwise known as North Korea), will go down in history as another case of "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". Since the Korean War stopped without a permanent truce in 1953, the world has become accustomed to the North Korean regime as a menace to regional peace and stability with ominous global ramifications because of its nuclear weapons.
N. Korea's Kim knows denuclearisation must be 'quick': Pompeo
AFP, Published on 14/06/2018
» SEOUL - North Korea's Kim Jong Un understands that denuclearisation 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.
N. Korea's Kim knows denuclearisation must be 'quick': Pompeo
AFP, Published on 14/06/2018
» SEOUL - North Korea's Kim Jong Un understands that denuclearisation 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.
Kim-Trump summit: Where does it leave the main players?
AFP, Published on 13/06/2018
» SINGAPORE: Donald Trump's groundbreaking meeting with Kim Jong Un, the hereditary leader of a dynastic dictatorship, was heralded by the main players as a breakthrough that will bring about major change, but left others wondering: What now?
S. Korea newspapers welcome summit as 'first step' toward peace
AFP, Published on 13/06/2018
» SEOUL - 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".
Kim invites Trump to visit Pyongyang as North hails 'radical switchover'
AFP, Published on 13/06/2018
» SEOUL - 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.
Peace on peninsula?
News, Published on 13/06/2018
» SINGAPORE: Clasping hands and forecasting future peace, US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un committed yesterday to "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean Peninsula during the first meeting in history between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
Trump says he will stop 'war games' with S. Korea
AFP, Published on 12/06/2018
» SINGAPORE - 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.
A Nobel in the offing for Trump and Kim Jong Un?
AFP, Published on 12/06/2018
» OSLO - Could their historic Singapore summit earn Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un a Nobel Peace Prize?
Trump-Kim summit document full text
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/06/2018
» SINGAPORE: Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un signed a document on Tuesday asserting that the US president would provide unspecified “security guarantees” to Kim in exchange for the North Korean leader’s “unwavering commitment to complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.