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jimnyc
06-11-2018, 01:10 PM
Obviously we aren't going to see Kim sign on the dotted line for every last thing we would like to see. Progress alone would be nice. Positive advancement and Kim still stating full denuclearization and inspections, and future meetings hopefully not far off. I can't imagine more than that in a small first time meeting.

And in addition, which would be huge, is talks of ending the Korean war finally.

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Pompeo says Trump can offer North Korea security assurances unlike any in the past

On the eve of a historic meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dangled new security concessions while publicly downplaying expectations that the nuclear summit will lead to anything beyond future talks.

As senior U.S. and North Korean negotiators huddled all day in working-level talks, Pompeo highlighted the extraordinary nature of the rushed Singapore summit, which brings a mercurial U.S. president and an erratic North Korean dictator face to face for the first time to haggle over the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war.

“There are only two people that can make decisions of this magnitude, and those two people are going to be sitting in a room together tomorrow,” Pompeo told reporters here Monday.

Several hours later, Kim made clear he was tired of waiting, so the normally secretive autocrat found an unexpected way to soften his image and make fresh headlines: He went sightseeing for an hour.

Kim’s motorcade left his heavily fortified luxury hotel shortly after 9 p.m. and headed to some of the busiest tourist destinations in downtown Singapore, including the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel and the Jubilee Bridge.

Surrounded by his entourage, a throng of bodyguards and Singapore government officials, Kim took in the sights and basked in camera flashes, greeted by a curious and buzzy crowd everywhere he went.

Rest - http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-trump-kim-summit-20180611-story.html