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| Trump arrives in demilitarised zone to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – live | |
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| While at the observation post, Trump’s military minder pointed out the Kaesong industrial complex, a joint North-South venture where tens of thousands of North Korean workers made products, including clothes and watches, for more than 100 South Korean companies.The complex’s fate has always been closely linked to the health of cross-border ties. It was closed by South Korea’s conservative government in 2016 in protest at North Korean nuclear test and missile launches. Seoul said profits from Kaesong were funding Pyongyang’s military programmes.The current South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, a liberal, would like to reopen Kaesong to encourage the North to make nuclear concessions, but restarting the complex is complicated by international economic sanctions against the regime in Pyongyang. | |
| It’s unclear where Trump is going now and when and where he will be meeting with Kim Jong-un. | |
| Trump is speaking to press. He says that much has been accomplished in improving the North Korean and US relationship due to his meetings with Kim Jong-un. | |
| “I would say to people who say nothing has been accomplished, so much was accomplished,” he said. | |
| “It’s all working out, it always works out.” | |
| And Trump has left the observation tower. | |
| A reminder that this issue has been a key branding point for Donald Trump who hails his meetings with Kim Jong-un (particularly the first meeting in Singapore last year) as one of the great achievements of his presidency. | |
| Footage from that meeting has featured in many of the video packages produced by the president’s team, that resemble movie trailers, selling Trump’s achievements. Looks like we might expect today’s meeting to feature in the next video. | |
| Trump's WH director of social media is on the trip to DMZ. Expect rapid turnaround video package of the 'handshake for peace' with KJU. https://t.co/SawW6zIC1H | |
| Is this meeting significant? | |
| At a press conference an hour and a half ago South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in said the meeting represented a “big hope to everyone”. | |
| Speaking alongside Trump at the start of their bilateral talks, Moon said even a handshake and brief encounter between Trump and Kim “would be a significant milestone in the peace process on the Korean peninsula”. | |
| Moon, who has travelled with Trump to the DMZ, added that he could “really feel that the flower of peace was truly blossoming on the Korean peninsula.” | |
| He later told a joint press conference that he was “overwhelmed” with emotion about the meeting at the border village of Panmunjom. He described Trump and Kim as “so brave” adding, “I hope President Trump will go down in history as the president who achieves peace on Korean peninsula.” | |
| This is the third time the two leaders have met. The first was in Singapore last June. They met again in February this year in Hanoi, but the meeting ended abruptly without progress. | |
| Associated Press is saying that the meeting between the two leaders is not as impromptu as it has been presented. | |
| From AP: “Despite Trump’s comments Saturday, he had told The Hill newspaper in Washington in an interview this past week that he would be visiting the DMZ and “might” meet with Kim. The paper reported it had withheld Trump’s comments, citing security concerns by the White House.” | |
| Trump is flanked by a large number of aides and military personnel and South Korean president Moon Jae-in. He is currently looking out over the DMZ from a bunker and being shown the landscape. | |
| Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in peering over into the North.https://t.co/4F6FVTN4a0 pic.twitter.com/xXyjaEIOHb | |
| Donald Tump has arrived in the DMZ for this fairly impromptu meeting with the chairman of North Korea. They are expected to shake hands and say hello, but not have any full-length talks. | |
| The president’s motorcade is pulling up now. | |
| The live-stream embedded at the top of the Guardian’s liveblog is making for some interesting listening at the moment. | |
| Reporters are preparing to get footage of the president’s arrival and greeting of the North Korean leader. However, they are being given strict instructions about what they are and are not allowed to film and photograph. “The boundary is the tower, do not film anything past that tower,” a minder’s voice is heard saying in English. | |
| This is Kate Lyons taking over from Alison Rourke. CNN reports that Trump has landed in the demilitarised zone and will meet with Kong Jong-un shortly. | |
| #breaking US President Donald Trump has landed at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. He is expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the DMZ soon. | |
| Donald Trump first suggested the meeting with Kim in a tweet at the G20 meeting in Japan yesterday morning, in which he said he’d like to “say Hello(?)!)“. | |
| During meetings in Seoul today he said that a handshake with Kim would “mean a lot”. | |
| The meeting between the two leaders was only confirmed in the past hour or so when Trump and South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in, held a joint press conference. You can read our full story on that here. | |
| More images are coming in of Trump’s helicopters arriving at the DMZ. | More images are coming in of Trump’s helicopters arriving at the DMZ. |
| President Trump’s helicopter arriving just now at the DMZ pic.twitter.com/lG5v4aac6i | President Trump’s helicopter arriving just now at the DMZ pic.twitter.com/lG5v4aac6i |
| Donald Trump has travelled to the so-called “peace village” of Panmunjom, the site of the demarcation line between the two Koreas when their war finished in 1953. Helicopters have been arriving at the site in the past two minutes. | Donald Trump has travelled to the so-called “peace village” of Panmunjom, the site of the demarcation line between the two Koreas when their war finished in 1953. Helicopters have been arriving at the site in the past two minutes. |
| Watching the Flight of the Valkyries w @BBCLBicker at the DMZ pic.twitter.com/4jP4rVT99O | Watching the Flight of the Valkyries w @BBCLBicker at the DMZ pic.twitter.com/4jP4rVT99O |
| Hello and welcome to this live blog for the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. The two men are expected to shake hands at the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, possibly in the next hour. There is also the possibility that Donald Trump may step over the border and in to the north, something he said yesterday he would be happy to do. Trump will be accompanied by South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in. Follow all of our live coverage of this historic meeting. | Hello and welcome to this live blog for the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. The two men are expected to shake hands at the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, possibly in the next hour. There is also the possibility that Donald Trump may step over the border and in to the north, something he said yesterday he would be happy to do. Trump will be accompanied by South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in. Follow all of our live coverage of this historic meeting. |