"After the meeting, which yielded an unbinding statement agreeing on the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula, Trump quipped that Kim had written him "beautiful letters" and "we fell in love." The two leaders would end up exchanging some 27 letters during Trump's first term. In many of them, Kim addressed Trump as "your excellency" while using flowery prose praising their friendship."
"However, the euphoria after the Singapore summit was short lived. A follow-up meeting in Hanoi in February 2019 was cut short when it was clear there would be no agreement on getting North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program. The leaders met again briefly again in June 2019 for a photo op at Panmunjom village marking the demilitarized zone between North and South."
Kim Jong Un expressed that he still has good memories of President Trump and indicated openness to new talks. Trump and Kim met in Singapore in June 2018 and exchanged numerous letters, with mutual friendly language and references to "complete denuclearization." A follow-up summit in Hanoi in February 2019 ended without an agreement on denuclearization, and the leaders met briefly at the DMZ in June 2019. North Korea has continued weapons development and provocative missile tests, leaving Trump to confront a more emboldened regime in his second presidential term.
Read at www.dw.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]