keep existing weapons. this would be a reversal for the trump administration s previous goal of complete denuclearization by north korea. white house national security adviser john bolton slammed the report, tweeting, i read this new york times story with curiosity. neither the nsc staff nor i have discussed or heard of any desire to settle for a nuclear freeze by north korea. this was a reprehensible attempt by someone to box in the president. there should be consequences. bolton, who has been a strong advocate for full denuclearization of north korea was in mongolia and not present for trump s meeting with kim. after the kim meeting, the president took aim at the obama administration and its inability to get a meeting with kim, according to trump. president obama wanted to meet and chairman kim would not meet him. the obama administration was begging for a meeting, they were begging for meetings constantly. and chairman kim would not meet
been in a great relationship. you saw when they were showing us around, they were showing president moon and myself around. they were talking about 2 1/2, 3 years ago, it was dangerous out there. you couldn t move. people were being killed. since singapore, it s been a whole different ball game. i was telling chairman kim, that actually, to me, hanoi was a great success. you need that and you sometimes need things like that to happen. it was a great success. we maintained our relationship. so, we re going to have teams that will meet in the next few weeks. they will start a process. we ll see what happens. the president seems to define success now, as meetings. the meetings are happening. the meeting today. they agreed to meet again. denuclearization, not a word he
that included the briefest of visits into north korea, by president trump. crossing the border at the invitation a couple of moments before coming back. he and kim had a 50-minute bilateral meeting. the president speaking alongside the south korean president, moon jae-in, saying the end result of the long discussion, was an agreement to restart associations between north korea and the u.s. listen to president trump a short time ago. thank you very much. we have a very good meeting. the team will try and work out some details again, speed is not the object. we want to see if we can do a comprehensive, good deal. nobody knows how things turn out. but this was a great day. this was a legendary and historic day. quick notice, nobody saw this coming.
was made by president trump to make this possible today. through today s meeting, the denuclearization, as well as the accomplishment of peace, that process on the korean peninsula. i believe we have just overcome a hill in that process. so, the 80 million people on the korean peninsula have been given hope thanks to today. as was mentioned by president trump right now, there will be a designated team of people, so, in the future we can take a big step forward. the initial plan had been for trump and i to co-visit the o.p. thanks to president trump s propoepr propos proposal, this historic meeting had taken place. i want to pay tribute to the
it was great he was able to react so quickly. able to react so quickly. and speaking with president moon, he would say, the meeting is just historic. it will be more historic if something comes up. a lot has come up. you see what s going on. you see what s happening. the level of relationship when i came into office. when i came into office, it was a fiery mess. bad things were going on. the end of the other administration, the last administration, was nothing but trouble. you don t report it accurately. but that s okay. some day history will record it accurately. for 12 1/2 years, we had peace,