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Nuclear Talks To Resume After Surprise Trump-Kim Meeting

June 30, 2019

The meeting was initiated by a sudden tweet from Trump that Kim said took him by surprise. This is the first time a U.S. president set foot in North Korea.

U.S. President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea Sunday when he met its leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, where the two presidents agreed on resuming stalled nuclear talks.

The meeting was initiated by a spur-of-the-moment tweet by Trump that Kim said took him by surprise. 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.

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The DMZ was set up after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a truce, leaving North Korea and U.S.-led U.N. forces still technically 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.”

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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 toward the denuclearization 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.

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 Saturday. Trump came to South Korea after attending a Group of 20 summits in Osaka, Japan.

“This is an expression of his willingness to leave behind the past and work toward 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 being 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.

 

Source URL: Telesur English

 

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