Singapore : US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met here today for an unprecedented summit aimed at normalising bilateral ties and complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Trump and Kim met at a hotel on Sentosa, a popular tourist island a few hundred metres off the main island of Singapore.
The two leaders kicked off the momentous summit with a historic handshake at the hotel in front of mediapersons. The President expressed hope that the historic summit would be "tremendously successful." Sitting next to the North Korean leader, Trump said, "We will have a terrific relationship ahead." "(I) Feel really great, we're gonna have a great discussion and a terrific relationship, I have no doubt," the President said. The North Korean dictator said there were a number of "obstacles" to the meeting taking place in Singapore today.
"We overcame all of them and we are here today," he told reporters through a translator. The summit - the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader - will mark a turnaround of relations between Trump and Kim after a long-running exchange of threats and insults. On the eve of the summit, the US offered "unique" security guarantees to North Korea in return for a "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearisation. The White House has confirmed that President Trump, 71, and Kim, 34, will initially hold a one-on-one meeting, with only translators present. The US insists it will accept nothing less than complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.PTI
