No wonder liberals are mad…
U.S. President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks.
The meeting, initiated a spur-of-the-moment tweet by Trump that Kim said took him by surprise, once again displayed the rapport between the two. But they are no closer to narrowing the gap between their positions since they walked away from their summit in February in Vietnam.
The two men shook hands warmly and expressed hopes for peace when they met for the third time in just over a year on the old Cold War frontier that for decades has symbolized the hostility between their countries, which are technically still at war.
Trump, escorted by Kim, briefly crossed a military demarcation line into the North side of the Joint Security Area (JSA), patrolled by soldiers from both Koreas.
Moments later, they returned to the southern side and joined South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in for a brief chat, marking an unprecedented three-way gathering.
Trump and Kim then held a closed-door meeting for nearly an hour.
“We just had a very, very good meeting,” Trump said after the talks. “We’ll see what can happen.”
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 “speed is not the thing.”
Pope Francis, making his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square, praised the meeting. “I salute the protagonists, with a prayer that such a significant gesture will be a further step on the road to peace, not only on that peninsula, but for the good of the entire world,” he said.
Trump and Kim met for the first time in Singapore in June last year, and agreed to improve relations and work towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
But the second summit in Hanoi 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.
‘PLENTY OF TIME’
Kim looked relaxed and smiled as he chatted with Trump amidst a throng of press photographers, aides and bodyguards.
Trump said the two leaders “moved mountains” to arrange the last-minute meeting.
“I was surprised to see you expressed an intent to meet,” Kim told Trump, referring to Trump’s offer for a meeting in a tweet on Saturday. Trump came to South Korea after attending a Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
“This is an expression of his willingness to leave behind the past and work towards a new future,” Kim said.
Kim said it would be a great honor if Trump visited his capital of Pyongyang. The two agreed to visit each other’s country “at the right time,” Trump said.
“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.”
But there has been little sign that North Korea and the United States are any closer to narrowing differences on the nuclear issue.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters shortly before departing South Korea that a fresh round of talks will likely happen “sometime in July” and the North’s negotiators would be foreign ministry diplomats.
“Today’s meeting was significant in salvaging faltering working-level talks,” said Shin Beom-chul, a senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.
“But the North wouldn’t easily change its stance, even though Trump has effectively responded to the so-called top-down approach cherished by Kim.”
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 programs for years in defiance of U.N. 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 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a truce, leaving North Korea and a U.S.-led U.N. forces still technically at war.
Src: The Federalist Papers
Another win for Trump a great day in North Korea. No president has ever accomplish the things that Trump has accomplished in just under three years even though all the Dems keep fighting him at every turn and he is still accomplishing great things. Now we’ll see how the leftist nut jobs want to put a spin on that to make Trump look bad good luck on that one. Now we will see what CNN fake news and MSNBC Rachel blowhard have to say about his trip to North Korea. Let’s see how low they can go embarrass them selves again. It really doesn’t matter what they have to say Trump once again created history yesterday by crossing the DMZ
It takes a real man to outshine ALL our politicians of the Democrat party. Thank you Mr. President for really helping to make America great again. The Dems are so full of hate for me, because my political color is different than theirs. How far America has fallen, because of greed, and power. When I was a kid, and later a young adult, we had elections, the winner took office, the electeds worked together, no matter the color of the party, and America prospered. Now the losers and their ass kissers put up road blocks, call names, and smell the farts to see what the winner had for dinner. My gawd Representatives, grow up, act like adults, and stop putting up roadblocks.
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Back being a WORTHLESS DEPLORABLE DEMOCRAT..
HEAR HEAR ! That’s all the DEPLORABLE DUMMY RAT DEMOCRATS KNOW ! DEPLORABLE DEMOCRATS and all BLOW and NO show !! I have never ever met a DEPLORABLE HABITUAL LYING DEMOCRAT I ever liked.. I married a DEMOCRAT and she SURE changed after she had been married to me the FIRST TWO years of our married life together.. She TOLD me after being married to ME for FIFTY YEARS she would never ever go
Back being a WORTHLESS DEPLORABLE DEMOCRAT..
It is very interesting to see the 25 so-called “experts in foreign relations” running for the Democratic nomination criticize, belittle, and ridicule Trump for his willingness to meet with Kim and try to continue negotiations. Their jealousy that NOT a Single President in the past 70 years has made anywhere near the progress Trump has is plainly obvious to anyone with their eyes open. They want to tell him what he is doing wrong lol but unlike Obama who would not dane to talk to him – even though he vowed to talk to dictators during his inauguration- you know because he alone could get them to do the right thing- Never spoke to Kim. I guess Kim was not the right kind of dictator to be of interest to Obama- Kim is not a Mulsim dictator so yeah uggg Obama could not speak with him.
Give us a break Dems/Libs your biggest fear is not N. Korea with a Nuke, it is Trump with a peace treaty and a Win!
You’re all so Effing transparent.
Who gives a shit what the communist pope has to say.
Trump just keeps moving in the right direction with all of his efforts. Democrats have a hard time spinning all of this? But they will attempt to do so, as usual.