{"id":298719,"date":"2018-06-12T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298719"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:39:22","slug":"us-president-north-korean-leader-shake-hands-to-open-historic-summit-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-president-north-korean-leader-shake-hands-to-open-historic-summit-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"US President, North Korean leader shake hands to open historic summit in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-298720 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kimdonald-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore on June 12 in a historic summit that could lead in bringing peace between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Trump Kim Summit is &#8220;going great. A really fantastic meeting. A lot of progress. Really very positive. I think better than anybody could have expected. Top of the line. Really good,&#8221;\u00a0 Trump told the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI think the entire world is watching this moment. Many people in the world will think of this as a scene from a fantasy&#8230;science fiction movie,&#8221; Kim said to Trump&#8217;s translator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe overcame all kinds of scepticism and speculations about this summit and I believe that this is good for the peace&#8230;I believe this is a good prelude for peace,\u201d said Kim<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy for us to come here. There was a past that grabbed our ankles and wrong prejudices and practices that at times covered our eyes and ears. We overcame all that and we are here now,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will have a terrific relationship, I have no doubt,\u201d\u00a0 Trump replied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Updates from the summit:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This meeting is historic as it is the first time that a serving US President sat down with the leader of North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the leaders warmly shook hands for around 13 seconds in front of a row of alternating US and North Korean flags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the leaders, including their interpreters, held a one-on-one meeting, for bilateral talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">US President and North Korean leader will sign an agreement to acknowledge the progress of the talks and pledge to keep the momentum going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump showed the interior of presidential limousine to Kim as they walked during the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Donald Trump, North Korean leader held a working lunch in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore on June 12 in a historic summit that could lead in bringing peace between the two nations. The Trump Kim Summit is &#8220;going great. A really fantastic meeting. A lot of progress. Really very positive. I think better than anybody could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2445,2446,1925,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299538,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298719\/revisions\/299538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}