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| Trump arrives in demilitarised zone to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – live | Trump arrives in demilitarised zone to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – live |
| (32 minutes later) | |
| Confirmation that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in the DMZ with the president. | |
| Yeah, Javanka there. Iron-clad stares. https://t.co/CqTunSPTDI pic.twitter.com/8Nfs6JgosG | |
| Trump is greeting military personnel. This event is taking place at a base in the DMZ. He is now signing the wall of the base, in keeping with tradition. | |
| “Yesterday, I had the idea, maybe I’ll call Chairman Kim…We respect each other, might even like each other,” Trump told the gathered military personnel and press. | |
| Trump has been presented with a golf shirt and cap with his name on it from a US military leader, in appreciation of his work for peace in the region. | |
| Donald Trump says this visit was organised several months ago when he told Moon he would like to visit the DMZ. But says that the meeting with Kim Jong-un was only organised yesterday. “So we didn’t give him much notice,” he says. | |
| He says the meeting with Kim will take place in about four minutes, so he needs to cut his remarks short. | |
| President Moon says we will witness an even more momentous event today. | |
| He says these great changes, from the DMZ being a place of hostility to peace is due to President Trump, whom he praises as “the president of all of you”. | |
| President Moon Jae-in is speaking now in a meeting with Donald Trump and military personnel. The South Korean president thanks the personnel for keeping Korea safe and says this is a historic meeting, the first time that the US president and South Korean president have ever been in the DMZ together. | |
| Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior aide, is also in the DMZ and has signalled her willingness to cross into North Korea if invited. | |
| Ivanka Trump says she will “absolutely” step over border at DMZ into North Korea today, “if I was invited.”“We need to continue that dialogue to work in good faith to realize that goal (of denuclearization). Today is another step in that direction,” she told me. pic.twitter.com/JSjwd1glfi | |
| Interesting analysis from Frank Jannuzi, formerly of the state department, in response to Trump’s comment that “all of the danger went away” after the first summit between the two leaders last June. | |
| Since the first summit, DPRK has probably produced enough fissile material (HEU) for 8-10 more nuclear weapons....while also testing a short-range solid fuel rocket that could be nuclear capable and hard for US missile defenses to knock down. | |
| ‘After our first summit all of the danger went away,’ Trump addresses press in DMZ | |
| “It used to be dangerous, very, very dangerous. After our first summit all of the danger went away,” Trump said, while addressing press in the DMZ. | |
| Trump criticised the press for their coverage of his summits with Kim Jong-un, particularly the most recent summit in Hanoi, which ended suddenly without an agreement. “They have no appreciation for what we’ve done,” he said. | |
| “I would say to people who say nothing has been accomplished, so much was accomplished,” he said. | |
| Trump could soon become the first sitting president to complain about the free press while in North Korea https://t.co/jPSQmXdlsT | |
| Trump was told that around 25 million people, including 10 million in the Seoul greater metropolitan area, are within range of North Korean artillery along the northern side of the DMZ. | |
| “There’s nothing like that anywhere, in terms of danger,” Trump said. “But it’s all working out,” he added in a reference to his dialogue with Kim Jong-un. “It always works out.” | |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | “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.” | “It’s all working out, it always works out.” |
| And Trump has left the observation tower. | 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. | 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. | 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 | 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? | 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”. | 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”. | 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.” | 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.” | 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.” |