{"id":220943,"date":"2019-06-30T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220943"},"modified":"2019-06-30T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T11:07:39","slug":"wide-grins-and-historic-handshake-for-trump-kim-at-dmz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/30\/wide-grins-and-historic-handshake-for-trump-kim-at-dmz\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide grins and historic handshake for Trump, Kim at DMZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ko\" dir=\"ltr\">\uae40\uc815\uc740 \uad6d\uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uacfc \uc545\uc218\ub97c \ub098\ub208 \ud2b8\ub7fc\ud504 \ub300\ud1b5\ub839\uc740 \uae40 \uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uc5d0\uac8c &quot;\ub0b4\uac00 \uc774 \uc120\uc744 \ub118\uc5b4\ub3c4 \ub418\ub290\ub0d0&quot;\uace0 \ubb3c\uc5c8\uace0, \uae40 \uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uc740 &quot;\ud55c \ubc1c\uc790\uad6d\ub9cc \ub118\uc73c\uba74 \uc774\ucabd(\ubd81\uce21) \ub545\uc744 \ubc1f\ub294 \ucd5c\ucd08\uc758 \ubbf8\uad6d \ub300\ud1b5\ub839\uc774 \ub418\uc2e0\ub2e4&quot;\uace0 \ub9d0\ud588\uc2b5\ub2c8\ub2e4.  \uc774\uc5d0 \ud2b8\ub7fc\ud504 \ub300\ud1b5\ub839\uc740 \uc591 \ud314\uc744 \ud06c\uac8c \ud55c \ubc88 \ubc8c\ub838\uc2b5\ub2c8\ub2e4. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBm66RloQ4\">pic.twitter.com\/XBm66RloQ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ub300\ud55c\ubbfc\uad6d \uccad\uc640\ub300 (@TheBlueHouseKR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBlueHouseKR\/status\/1145267378835431424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With wide grins and a historic handshake, President Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0and North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on Sunday and agreed to revive talks on the pariah nation&#8217;s nuclear program.\u00a0Trump, pressing his bid for a legacy-defining deal, became the first sitting American leader to step into North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>What was intended to be an impromptu exchange of pleasantries turned into a 50-minute meeting, another historic first in the yearlong rapprochement between the two technically warring nations. It marked a return to face-to-face contact between the leaders after talks broke down during a summit in Vietnam in February. Significant doubts remain, though, about the future of the negotiations and the North&#8217;s willingness to give up its stockpile of nuclear weapons .<\/p>\n<p>The border encounter was a made-for television moment. The men strode toward one another from opposite sides of the Joint Security Area and shook hands over the raised patch of concrete at the Military Demarcation Line as cameras clicked and photographers jostled to capture the scene.<\/p>\n<p>After asking if Kim wanted him to cross,\u00a0Trump\u00a0took 10 steps into the North with Kim at his side, then escorted Kim back to the South for talks at Freedom House, where they agreed to revive the stalled negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle marked the latest milestone in two years of roller-coaster diplomacy between the two nations. Personal taunts of \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d (by\u00a0Trump) and \u201cmentally deranged U.S. dotard\u201d (by Kim) and threats to destroy one other have given way to on-again, off-again talks, professions of love and flowery letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was proud to step over the line,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0told Kim as they met in on the South Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom. \u201cIt is a great day for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim hailed the moment, saying of\u00a0Trump, \u201cI believe this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future.\u201d Kim added that he was \u201csurprised\u201d when\u00a0Trump\u00a0issued an unorthodox meeting invitation by tweet on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0had predicted the two would greet one another for about \u201ctwo minutes,\u201d but they ended up spending more than an hour together. The president was joined in the Freedom House conversation with Kim by his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka\u00a0Trump\u00a0and Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Substantive talks between the countries had largely broken down after the last\u00a0Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, which ended early when the leaders hit an impasse.<\/p>\n<p>The North has balked at\u00a0Trump&#8217;s insistence that it give up its weapons before it sees relief from crushing international sanctions. The U.S. has said the North must submit to \u201ccomplete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization\u201d before sanctions are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>As he announced the resumptions of talks,\u00a0Trump\u00a0told reporters \u201cwe&#8217;re not looking for speed. We&#8217;re looking to get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that economic sanctions on the North would remain. But he seemed to move off the administration&#8217;s previous rejection of scaling back sanctions in return for piecemeal North Korean concessions, saying, \u201cAt some point during the negotiation things can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peering into North Korea from atop Observation Post Ouellette,\u00a0Trump\u00a0told reporters before he greeted Kim that there had been \u201ctremendous\u201d improvement since his first meeting with the North&#8217;s leader in Singapore last year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0claimed the situation used to be marked by \u201ctremendous danger\u201d but \u201cafter our first summit, all of the danger went away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the North has yet to provide an accounting of its nuclear stockpile, let alone begin the process of dismantling its arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>The latest meeting, with the U.S. president coming to Kim, represented a striking acknowledgement by\u00a0Trump\u00a0of the authoritarian Kim&#8217;s legitimacy over a nation with an abysmal human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0told reporters he invited the North Korean leader to the United States, and potentially even to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would invite him right now,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0said, standing next to Kim. Speaking through a translator, Kim responded that it would be an \u201chonour\u201d to invite\u00a0Trump\u00a0to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang \u201cat the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with the leader of the isolated nation last year when they signed an agreement in Singapore to bring the North toward denuclearization.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the DMZ gathering,\u00a0Trump\u00a0repeatedly complained that he was not receiving more praise for de-escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula through his personal diplomacy with Kim. Critics say\u00a0Trump\u00a0had actually inflamed tensions with his threats to rain \u201cfire and fury\u201d on North Korea, before embracing a diplomatic approach.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s nuclear threat has not been contained, according to Richard Haas, president of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. He tweeted Sunday that the threat of conflict has subsided only because the\u00a0Trump\u00a0administration has decided it can live with North Korea&#8217;s \u201cnuclear program while it pursues the chimera of denuclearization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every president since Ronald Reagan has visited the 1953 armistice line, except for George H.W. Bush, who visited when he was vice-president. The show of bravado and support for South Korea, one of America&#8217;s closest military allies, has evolved over the years to include binoculars and bomber jackets.<\/p>\n<p>While North Korea has not recently tested a long-range missile that could reach the U.S., last month it fired off a series of short-range missiles .\u00a0Trump\u00a0has brushed off the significance of those tests, even as his own national security adviser, John Bolton, has said they violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\uae40\uc815\uc740 \uad6d\uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uacfc \uc545\uc218\ub97c \ub098\ub208 \ud2b8\ub7fc\ud504 \ub300\ud1b5\ub839\uc740 \uae40 \uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uc5d0\uac8c &quot;\ub0b4\uac00 \uc774 \uc120\uc744 \ub118\uc5b4\ub3c4 \ub418\ub290\ub0d0&quot;\uace0 \ubb3c\uc5c8\uace0, \uae40 \uc704\uc6d0\uc7a5\uc740 &quot;\ud55c \ubc1c\uc790\uad6d\ub9cc \ub118\uc73c\uba74 \uc774\ucabd(\ubd81\uce21) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":220944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-zeke-miller","mauthors-jonathan-lemire","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220945,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220943\/revisions\/220945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}