success. translator: kim jong-un said that today both side came together to sign the historic joint statement, heralding a new start. photos of what it calls a meeting of the century. service, more glowing rhetoric e saying president trump appreciated that an atmosphere of peace had been created, quote, thanks to the proactive peace loving measures taken by the supreme leader from the outset of this year. among the highlights, a huge win for kim that president trump has agreed to end the military exercises with south korea that the north has seen as a provocation. i think it s predictable that they did spin it this way. this was a tremendous political victory for kim jong-un. aside from individual concessions, kim s most important win from the summit meeting, expoerts say, could be his largest domestic victory with north korea s people and inside the halls of influence in pyongyang. he was able to show his people that he s respected as a world leader, that the north
once again our breaking news, north korean news reports that kim jong-un understood ent trump that sanctions against north korea will be lifted as progress is made from dialogue and negotiations. it s part of a much different story north koreans are telling about the summit. let s go to cnn s brian todd. reporter: one analyst, a former american diplomat who negotiated with the north koreans just told me, quote, kim jong-un stole trump s watch, wallet and shoes. it was awful. tonight while president trump spins it a different way, there s still no hitch in kim s swagger. [ speaking foreign language] projected on large screens in downtown pyongyang, north korea s iconic anchor woman proclaims kim jong-un s summit with donald trump a resounding
i said, boy, wouldn t that make a great condo behind and i explained. i said, you know, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world right there. think of it from a real estate perspective. you have south korea. you have china, and they own the land in the middle. how bad is that, right? it s great. bob, i think he has a good deal on a condo for you. we ll have to see if a trump tower is built in downtown pyongyang. what we re seeing right here is a president who is still a salesman. when we hear that kim jong-un smiled as he watched this video, this propaganda video that was proposed to him, it s understandable talking to foreign policy experts today. they say he s looking at that video and he s seeing that he could have sanctions ultimately removed to have some kind of capital come into his country, and that the president s inferring that kim jong-un could be overseeing that kind of depment inside north korea. that means the u.s. is not trying to have a re
he s meeting with a dictator at least in the short term with nothing concrete to show for it. bob, you have talked for years about the blurred lines between trump the man, trump the business, and trump the president now. with that in mind, let s relive this moment from earlier today. they have great beaches. you see that whenever they re exploding their cannons into the roegs, right? i said, boy, wouldn t that make a great condo behind and i explained. i said, you know, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world right there. think of it from a real estate perspective. you have south korea. you have china, and they own the land in the middle. how bad is that, right? it s great. bob, i think he has a good deal on a condo for you. we ll have to see if a trump tower is built in downtown
embracing donald trump to say the least. this is what vanity fair wrote this week. that president trump, who has established a credible threat of war and appears just impulsive enough to follow-through may have convinced kim that he has no other option but to bet on peace. the prospect of a cataclysm that could decimate north and south with trump may have convinced both sides to take some action. so seems like the president is getting credit to get to this point. right. that s deservedly so. what has happened here is the status quo has changed. the past few years, the kim regime has been disdainful of international overtures. it literally didn t pick up the phone for several years when south korea tried to contact them. now they invited the south korean delegation to north korea. they extended this invitation to donald trump, which suggested to me that the internal calculus being made in pyongyang has changed and i think that is clearly true both because of the