Malcolm Turnbull issues emphatic endorsement of Donald Trump's North Korea approach
- by Celia Watts
- in People
- — Jun 13, 2018
After the historic summit today between U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, there's one clear victor: China.
"We had a historic meeting and made a decision to leave the past behind", Kim said as he and Trump signed the joint statement, adding, "The world will see a major change".
Trump's North Korean counterpart had also attended a meeting with PM Lee at the Istana yesterday for a half-hour session.
But ordinary North Koreans are not confident improvement in US-North Korea relations will last long, defectors have said.
It wasn't the first time video was used as a way to connect with Kim.
The report noted that Kim and Trump walked together after lunch, "deepening friendly feelings" and held a "meaningful photo session" to commemorate the signing of the agreement. I really believe that.
"It must have been at Kim's insistence to not [include] CVID", a senior South Korean official said, saying any reference to the term would have subjected Pyongyang to much tighter scrutiny.
The video mixes both Hollywood and propaganda film tropes that play over a pulsing orchestral score.
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Trump is known for making strident comments in other settings. "He did him a favor", Navarro said. Trudeau said he is "not remotely interested" in having Russian Federation rejoin the group.
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Trump said on Twitter that he would not sign the communique, calling Trudeau "very dishonest & weak" for his trade criticism. He said Trump "did the courtesy to Justin Trudeau to travel up to Quebec for that summit".
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Trump on taking a "major step. that will lead to an historic peace".
The US and South Korea suspending their military exercises in exchange for the North stopping its missile launches and nuclear tests is the exact situation China wants to see on the peninsula.
Other pages showed USA and North Korean officials having their extended meeting, a working lunch and later, Trump and Kim signing a joint agreement that marked the end to the summit.
In its first report on the summit, the state-run KCNA news agency said "Kim Jong-un invited Trump to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump invited Kim Jong-un to visit the US".
The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S. -DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity. Ending the exercises would also save money, Trump said. -South Korea military exercises along the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, a tangible concession that drew criticism from a number of lawmakers back home.
"Kim Jong Un invited Trump to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump invited Kim Jong Un to visit the U.S.", the news agency wrote.
"One moment. One choice". The video offered Kim a stark choice between military conflict on the Korean Peninsula and the kind of robust economic development that has turned neighbouring South Korea into a wealthy nation. At one point, they said this was a radical switch-over from the most hostile state of our relationship. "I think he's going to start now", he said. A flurry of media coverage the day Kim arrived in Singapore showed him waving from the door of the specially chartered Air China flight that brought him from Pyongyang.
Shaheen and other lawmakers added there should be no cancellation of US military exercises in Asia, as Trump suggested, without first consulting South Korea and other allies in the region.
