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Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un meeting LIVE updates: Denuclearisation of North Korea to begin soon, says US president

Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, have signed a document which will see the denuclearisation of North Korea which started, “very quickly”, and this has been declared by the US president.

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in Singapore, Post the working lunch was ended in the morning time of the negotiations, the 2 mentioned leaders held a signing ceremony, with Mr Trump regarded this as the “comprehensive” agreement.

Mr Kim told, “we are leaving the past behind us” as he said, “the world will see a major change”.

Though, he had formed a “special bond” with Mr Kim, the US president, said, regarding the same that he would be inviting his North Korean counterpart to the White House also.

Previously, he also said: “A really fantastic meeting – a lot of progress. Better than anybody could have expected. Top of the line.”

Before lunch, he hailed his “excellent” relationship with Mr Kim and think that the pair will “solve” the Korean Peninsula stand-off post their historic meeting.

The US president said his one-on-one meeting with the North Korean leader, that was going around 40 minutes, was “very good” and predicted “tremendous success”.

The comments came after the two leaders shared a 12-second handshake as they met for the first time in front of a dozen American and North Korean flags.

Mr Trump patted Kim and shared some praiseworthy words ahead of the pair turned and posed for the cameras in Singapore.

The duo have a good time together when they have been seen smiling and laughing together because they walked along a collonade towards their meeting.

Mr Kim greeted his American counterpart and said: “Nice to meet you Mr. President.”

Never before have a sitting North Korean and American leader met. The summit happened at the luxury hotel on Sentosa Island, just off the Singaporean coast.

Before their talks – both men expressed optimism about the summit – via their interpreters.

Mr Trump said: “I feel really great. We are gonna have a great discussion and I think tremendous success. We will be tremendously successful. It’s my honor. We will have a terrific relationship, I have no doubt.”

Mr Kim said: “The way to come to here was not easy. The old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward but we overcame all of them and we are here today.”

Both of them actually has been seen discussing something very important via the North Korea’s denuclearisation was on the agenda.

Mr Trump said at the meeting: “Mr Chairman, it’s a great honor to be with you, and I know we’ll have tremendous success together.

“We’ll solve a big problem, a big dilemma, that until this point has been unable to be solved. Working together with you, we’ll get it taken care of.”

Mr Kim responded: “There will be challenges ahead but we will work with Trump.  We overcame all kinds of skepticism and speculations about this summit and I believe that this is good for the peace.”

Mr Trump later said: “We will solve it, we will be successful. And I look forward to working on it with you. It will be done. Thank you very much.”

The remarks – was actually detail about what the leaders discussed – suggest Mr Trump is optimistic that a deal can be done to get Mr Kim in order to give up his all nuclear weapons.

There were also lighter moments. At one point Mr Kim’s translator said to Mr Trump that many people would think the summit is very akin to the “science fiction movie”.

Both sides later enjoyed a “working lunch” with their own group. Prawn cocktail was among the starters and vanilla Häagen-Dazs ice cream was served for the dessert.

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