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Now that President Donald Trump's meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is in the books, a new chapter in the tense relationship between the two countries can be written. According to reporting by The New York Times , the United States has promised to stop war games in the region and to open diplomatic channels to the long-isolated nation, while North Korea has re-committed to de-nuclearization.
Really if you want to watch the nightly news one of the best outlets is Seth Meyers' late night show. Last night he marveled at the fact that Kim Jong-un brought his own portable toilet to the summit so that Western spies won't use the sewer system to check on his health.
President Donald Trump isn't the first president to call off joint military exercises with South Korea in order to appease North Korea. The Clinton administration deferred a U.S.-South Korea military exercise to persuade North Korea to allow inspection of its nuclear facilities in April 1994.
That seems to be Trump's order coming out of the North Korean summit. Also, "Gimme my Peace Prize, Bitches!" CNN Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr is as confused as anyone at the Pentagon, and you can tell it's leaving her a little shaken.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders praised President Donald Trump after a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a statement released Tuesday. The meeting between Trump and Kim was "a positive step" towards peace, Sanders said hours after Trump and Kim signed a "comprehensive" agreement promising North Korea better relations and security guarantees.
Trump gave the North Korean leader his moment in the sun, a presidential handshake against he backdrop of the U.S. flag on equal footing with the DPRK flag. With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the North Korean summit in Singapore, it wasn't a stretch that some sort of cursory agreement would be made.
It did not take long for bookmakers to slash Donald Trump's odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. OSLO: It did not take long for bookmakers to slash Donald Trump's odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The New York Times reminds us today that Kim John-un is a ruthless dictator who commits crimes against humanity. In North Korea, these crimes "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," concluded a 2014 United Nations report that examined North Korea.
Dennis Rodman revealed Tuesday that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called him and gave him a special message. "[Sanders] sent her best wishes and said that Donald Trump is really proud of you.
Trump was so certain that he would sign some kind of an agreement that he had produced a propaganda picture show to the North Korean leader on an Ipad depicting them both as other worldly figures of colossal stature. Destiny Pictures presents a story of opportunity.
Kim Jong Un peered inside as a Secret Service agent held open a door of "The Beast," President Donald Trump's heavily armored limousine. The surreal moment left some lawmakers speechless, with Democrats saying it showed Trump was too conciliatory toward the North Korean dictator during their historic summit.
Trump walked away from his historic meeting with Kim believing that the United States and North Korea can "start a new history" be achieving peace between the two nations. In a highly stage-managed summit at the Capella Hotel in Singapore , Trump lavished Kim with compliments, calling him "very smart" and hailing their "special bond".
President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un conclude an extraordinary nuclear summit Tuesday with the U.S. president pledging "security guarantees" to the North and Kim recommitting to the "complete... President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un conclude an extraordinary nuclear summit Tuesday with the U.S. president pledging "security guarantees" to the North and Kim recommitting to the "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." . . FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev, speaks during a media briefing at Metro Police headquarters in Las Vegas.
President Donald Trump said it himself to Congress and the American people: "No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea." But when it comes to human rights, don't expect Trump to hold Kim Jong Un's feet to the fire at the Singapore summit.
President Donald Trump said it himself to Congress and the American people: "No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea." But when it comes to human rights, don't expect Trump to hold Kim Jong Un's feet to the fire at the Singapore summit.
"It was not easy to get here," Kim Jong Un said shortly after meeting Donald Trump on Tuesday morning in Singapore. This, after the ravages of the Korean War, decades of violent flare-ups in a conflict that never really ended, 25 years of failed nuclear negotiations, and many months of Trump and Kim threatening each other with nuclear armageddon, was quite the understatement.
Sean Hannity scores Trump's North Korea interview - President Trump's first sit-down television interview after his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is expected to be with his friend and confidant, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Axios has learned. U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit - WASHINGTON - Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo's father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family.
U.S. won't bring up North Korea's human rights issues at Singapore summit - WASHINGTON - Wounded from torture and starving, Grace Jo's father died on a train heading to a North Korean prison camp, a fellow inmate told his family. His crime: illegally possessing a bag of rice during the 1990s famine.