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The dinner Trump and Kim ate together included grilled sirloin with pear kimchi – marinated tender sirloin grilled with sauce, served with kimchi fermented inside a pear.
I’m glad that Trump’s tone was ‘realistic’: Former US ambassador
Thomas Hubbard of the Korea Society says it is good that both leaders had positive attitudes ahead of talks at the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi. Hubbard, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, also says that U.S. President Donald Trump is right to not expect an “immediate success” out of this meeting.
A possible outcome of this week’s U.S.-North Korea summit would be an exchange of liaison offices… It would mark a step toward more normal ties.
South Korea’s President Moon — who cleared his schedule to keep a close eye on the Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam — could try to meet Trump soon.
Donald Trump: “Your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited…I look forward to watching it happen and to helping it to happen and we will help it to happen.”
President Trump and Kim Jong Un begin their two day meeting with a grip and grin for the cameras.
An end of war declaration could be on the table in this round of talks.
A group of 20 House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a resolution that would call for an end to the Korean War but also keep U.S. troops in that country.
Both sides are likely to feel pressure to agree on specific measures this time – what concrete steps North Korea will take to give up weapons that threaten the U.S. mainland, and what the United States will offer in return.
PacNet #17 – Preserving the US-ROK alliance is critical
In a new article for PacNet about the upcoming Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, Korea Society president Tom Byrne & board director General Walter Sharp emphasize the importance of the US-South Korea Alliance in the negotiation process. “In any scenario post-Hanoi,” they write, “the steady hand of the alliance will be key. With luck, it will be the cornerstone of a new era of non-hostile engagement & cooperation w/ North Korea.”