What president has met with North Korea?
What president has met with North Korea?
Table of visit
| President | Dates | Key details |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Trump | June 30, 2019 | Briefly walked into the northern side of the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, accompanied by North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea. |
Who has met Kim Jong Un?
2019
| Date(s) | Leaders met | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | April 24–26, 2019 | Russian President Vladimir Putin |
| 9 | June 30, 2019 | United States President Donald Trump South Korean President Moon Jae-in |
What is President Trump’s relationship with North Korea?
Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a leader of North Korea in June 2018, and later took an unprecedented step onto North Korean soil in 2019 — with the aim of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
What happened during Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong un?
The statement came during an extraordinary last-minute meeting with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader. Side-by-side with Kim in the heavily-fortified demilitarized zone, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to cross the 1953 armistice line separating North and South Korea, then joined Kim for a roughly 50-minute meeting.
Is Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea unraveling?
As far as punitive gift-giving goes, North Korea tends to favor demonstrations of fearsome weapons over lumps of coal. The subtext of all the nervous talk was that Trump’s once-promising diplomacy with Kim is rapidly unraveling.
What happened to Trump’s 2018 denuclearization pledge to North Korea?
The 2018 denuclearization pledge was made without any such written assurances from the Trump administration, though the president and other U.S. officials verbally echoed these promises before the summit. 4) For the moment, some conditions for a realistic, halfway-decent nuclear deal with North Korea are in place.