Trump says N Korea no longer a nuclear threat
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WASHINGTON: North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, nor is it the “biggest and most dangerous problem” for the United States, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday on his return from a summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The summit was the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader and followed a flurry of North Korean nuclear and missile tests and angry exchanges between Trump and Kim last year that fueled fears of war.
“Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” Trump said on Twitter.
“There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”
On Tuesday, Trump told a news conference after the summit that he would like to lift sanctions against the North but that this would not happen immediately.
North Korean state media lauded the summit as a resounding success, saying Trump expressed his intention to halt U.S.-South Korea military exercises, offer security guarantees to the North and lift sanctions against it as relations improve.
Kim and Trump invited each other to their respective countries and both leaders “gladly accepted,” the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
“Kim Jong Un and Trump had the shared recognition to the effect that it is important to abide by the principle of step-by-step and simultaneous action in achieving peace, stability and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” KCNA said. (Reuters)
China hopes that all parties could grasp moment of positive changes on the Korean peninsula
Speaking in a daily news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said that his country hopes that all parties could grasp the moment of positive changes on the Korean peninsula to take constructive steps towards a political resolution and promoting denuclearization.
Meanwhile ,Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the US-North Korean has helped reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
He said it would have been wrong to have expected that all of the issues surrounding North Korea’s missile and nuclear program could have been solved in an hour.
He said we still need to analyze the results of the meeting but the fact that it took place can only be welcomed.
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