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- ABC News
- June 12, 2018
Trump, Kim hold historic one-on-one meeting
Trump is seeking a historic deal to rid North Korea of its nuclear program.
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Photos showed that National Security Adviser John Bolton was present in the room along with Kim Yong Chol, the high-ranking North Korean military official who hand-delivered a letter from Kim to Trump at the White House on June 1. Bolton has in the past advocated for military action to overthrow the North Korean regime and was more recently a target of searing rhetoric from officials who said in a mid-May statement, \"we do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him.\"
Forty-five minutes after going into their one-on-one meeting, Trump and Kim emerged and took a short walk together down a colonnade at the Capella Resort to a separate expanded bilateral meeting.
Trump shouted over a balcony to reporters that the private meeting was “very, very good” and said the two have an “excellent relationship.” Kim did not respond to shouted questions about whether he will give up his country's nuclear weapons.
Photos: Trump goes face to face with Kim in historic summit with North Korea
The two then sat down with their broader national security delegations for a second meeting. The president was joined by a translator and his chief of staff John Kelly along with Secretary Pompeo and Bolton.
While the president has more recently sought to temper expectations of what he may be able to achieve with the summit, he has also said the interaction amounts to a crucial test in determining whether Kim is genuine in committing to rid his country of its nuclear program.
\"I think things could work out very nicely,\" Trump said in a Tuesday meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
The meeting marks the first ever meeting between a sitting North Korean leader and a U.S. president. U.S. officials have said a best case scenario would be that it serves as a launching pad for negotiations that would provide Kim with physical security and his closed off nation with economic assurances in exchange for irreversibly dismantling his country's nuclear capabilities.
\"I believe we're going to have a terrific success or a modified success,\" Trump said during a press conference last week with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. \"But I really believe that we have the potential to do something incredible for the world. And it's my honor to be involved.\"
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The meeting carries not only potentially dire diplomatic risks, but high political stakes as well for a president who has framed the meeting in legacy-defining terms.
While there has been a wave of bipartisan voices looking to support the president's efforts to avert war in the Korean peninsula, there have also been concerns in foreign policy circles that the meeting will elevate Kim's status as a brutal dictator overseeing a regime complicit in horrendous human-rights abuses.
The White House has not said whether the president will raise issue with North Korea's dismal human rights record, but the president took time in the hours before his meeting to take a swipe at critics of the sit-down.
The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2018
The meeting is also a striking departure for a relationship that just months ago was defined by highly personal insults and rhetoric that seemed to raise the possibility for imminent military confrontation.
In a September 2017 speech in front of the United Nations, President Trump referred to Kim as “Rocket Man” and threatened to “totally destroy North Korea,” which earned a rare rebuke directly from Kim describing the president as a “frightened dog” and “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”
Following their meetings, Trump will hold a media availability with reporters as Kim Jong Un departs back to North Korea.
Even though President Trump had previously raised the possibility their summit could extend beyond just one day, the White House said Tuesday that the president planned to depart Singapore earlier than originally scheduled as negotiations with the North Korean delegation \"have moved more quickly than expected.\"
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In a briefing with reporters Monday, Secretary of State Pompeo did not set a threshold for whether there's any terms than North Korea would have to agree to beyond committing to further discussions that would make the summit a success.
\"We are hopeful this summit will have set the conditions for future productive talks,\" Pompeo said. \"In light of how many flimsy agreements the United States has made in previous years, this President will ensure that no potential agreement will fail to adequately address the North Korean threat.\"
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