President Trump and Kim Jong Un will sign a joint agreement on Thursday, according to the White House; it's not yet known what is contained in the document
on Thursday, according to the White House, and the President's daily schedule lists a signing ceremony after a day of meetings with Kim.: US officials had been working to draft an agreement with their North Korean counterparts ahead of Trump's arrival but it's not yet known what is contained in the document.
According to state media, Kim told Trump the two leaders had overcome"mistrust, misunderstanding, hostility and old practices." "My expectations is still that no matter what happens Trump is going to come out and say it was a tremendous victory," says Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.President Trump has departed dinner with North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the Metropole Hotel. Trump left the hotel 1 hour and 42 minutes after the dinner began.
Asked whether he'd walked back his vow to insist upon the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Trump said he had not.Questioned later whether he planned to declare an end to the Korean War, he said:"We'll see."Kim and Trump pose before their meeting during the second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday.
He added that Kim's ultimate goal here is likely to get the world comfortable with him and with the idea of him being in possession of a nuclear arsenal."He's not going to be keen to throw away decades of research. Much of the time he has spent in power, he has spent growing his nuclear program. So it's naive to think the North Koreans are going to give that away in exchange for economic opportunity.
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