Trump-Kim summit: North Korea commits to 'work towards complete denuclearisation' – live
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Version 13 of 37. Reuters has the full text of the document signed by Trump and Kim. President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a first, historic summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018. President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: 1. 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. 2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. 3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. 4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. Having acknowledged that the U.S.-DPRK summit - the first in history - was an epochal event of great significance and overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening of a new future, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un commit to implement the stipulations in this joint statement fully and expeditiously. The United States and the DPRK commit to hold follow-on negotiations led by the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and a relevant high-level DPRK official, at the earliest possible date, to implement the outcomes of the U.S.-DPRK summit. President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the development of new U.S.-DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the Korean Peninsula and of the world. Korea analyst are not impressed by the vagueness and limited scope of the agreement. Robert Kelly, professor of political science at Pusan National University, says the text is “even thinner than most sceptics anticipated”. Wow. If this is it... this is depressing. This is even thinner than most skeptics anticipated. I figured Trump wd at least get some missiles or a site closure or something concrete: https://t.co/tvhLVnlXpj. This looks pretty generic. Maybe there will be some surprise in presser? https://t.co/BbzZaeCzo0 Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis is also doubtful. How does the Joint Statement from the “epochal” Singapore Summit stack up with other historic documents on denuclearization? Not so well, I fear. See for yourself; @Joshua_Pollack has compiled them all.https://t.co/4c7t3rNpGD Chad O’Carroll of the Korea Risk Group decodes the text. Some initial thoughts:1. How will Trump make "security guarantees to the DPRK" genuinely credible?2. That answer will impact any KJU roadmap to "denuclearization of the peninsula" 5. Denucelarization will be of peninsula, not just NK.6. No mention of missiles! This was issue that brought all to fore last year.7. Text on MIA remains implies U.S. mil. figures will be visiting DPRK.8. Commitment to "expeditious" implentation is good. Here’s a slightly clearer view of those four key points. The most important one is the third point in which Trump and Kim “commit to work toward the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”. There is plenty of wiggle room in committing to work toward denuclearisation. LATEST: Preview of the Kim-Trump statement pic.twitter.com/VYzCe0u1Er Professor John Delury from South Korea’s Yonsei University likes the way the text leaked out. Marshall McLuhan would so relish this moment, when Text is inadvertently disclosed in the Image of post-Gutenberg Man, holding it aloft like a trophy. Too bad he’s not around to enjoy it. Here’s another close-up image of the text. North Korea commits to “work towards” denuclearisation in the document Kim signed with Trump, according to photographs of the text. ZOOM IN ON THE TEXT: "President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." pic.twitter.com/vXBeIMP81i Jonathan Cheng from the Wall Street Journal says there are four key points. 2. “The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.” 4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. China has praised the summit as historic and called for “full denuclearisation” to resolve tensions on the Korean peninsula, AFP reports: The fact that the two leaders “can sit together and have equal talks has important and positive meaning, and is creating a new history,” the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, told reporters. “The crux of the peninsula nuclear issue is a security issue. The most important, difficult part of this security issue is for the United States and North Korea to sit down to find a way to resolution via equal talks. “Resolving the nuclear issue, on the one hand of course, is denuclearisation, full denuclearisation. At the same time, there needs to be a peace mechanism for the peninsula, to resolve North Korea’s reasonable security concerns.” There is impatience among watching journalists and analysts to see the contents of the document agreed by Trump and Kim. Dear White House staff,It’s 2:06 am on the East Coast. Can we move it along with the document please? They have signed an agreement but not sure what’s in it yet. Is it a success or not depends on what’s in it. https://t.co/rX1sMbTmS4 Trump and Kim have left Sentosa after the conclusion of the summit. The motorcades of the two leaders have left the resort island. Trump has said he will give a press conference later this afternoon, before departing Singapore at 7pm local time. He is expected to speak to the press alone. Trump and Kim have appeared on the steps of the hotel holding their signed agreements. “We had a terrific day and we learned a lot about each other and our countries,” said Trump. Asked what he learned about Kim, Trump said: “I learned he’s a very talented man and I also learned he loves his country very much.” They then enjoyed another extended handshake. Asked if they would meet again, Trump said, “We’ll meet many times,” before leaving the steps. The US and North Korean leaders have signed an agreement after historic talks held in Singapore. Trump and Kim arrived in the signing room, walking in together and taking seats at the table. Trump said the pair were signing a “very important document, a pretty comprehensive document”. Kim said: “Today we have had a historic meeting, we decided to leave the past behind. The world will see a major change. I would like to express my gratitude to President Trump for making this meeting happen.” After making statements, they shook hands and signed the documents. It is still unclear what they have signed. Trump said that would become clear shortly and that he would “discuss this at great length” in a press conference later this afternoon, but that the document was “comprehensive”. “A lot of goodwill went into this, a lot of work, a lot of preparation. We’re very proud of what took place today,” said Trump. Trump said the relationship between the world and North Korea was going to change in light of the agreement. “We are going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world,” said Trump. Trump was asked if he and Kim had talked about denuclearisation and he replied: “We’re starting that process very quickly, very very quickly.” Trump ignored a question about whether the pair had discussed about Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was held in a North Korean labour camp, and died shortly after being flown back to the US. Kim did not reply when asked if he was willing to give up nuclear weapons. “We’re very proud of what took place today,” said Trump. “I think our whole relationship with North Korea and the whole Korean peninsula is going going to be a very much different situation to what it has been in the past. We both want to do something, we’re both going to do something and we’ve developed a very special bond.” “I want to say thank you to Chairman Kim, we spent a lot of time together today, a very intensive time.” Trump was asked if he would invite Kim to the White House and Trump replied: “Absolutely”. The North Korean and US delegations have entered the room where the signing is due to take place. We are expecting Trump and Kim to arrive imminently. |