President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore Tuesday for a historic summit and signed an agreement committing to the “building of a lasting and robust peace regime” on the Korean peninsula.
“We’re prepared to start a new history, and we’re ready to start a new chapter between our nations,” Trump said at a news conference.
“Peace is always worth the effort,” he said. “Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace.”
Read on for a look at five things to know about the agreements Trump and Kim made.
Denuclearization
Trump and Kim signed a document promising to work for “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
Trump later told Fox News he thinks Kim will begin to dismantle his nuclear program “virtually immediately.”
“I just think that we are now going to start the process of denuclearization of North Korea, and I believe that he’s going back and will start it virtually immediately,” Trump said. “And he’s already indicated that and you look at what he’s done.”
“His country has to be de-nuked, and he understood that, he fully understood that, he didn’t fight it,” Trump said.
At a news conference, the president said he understood it would take “a long time to pull off complete denuclearization,” but he promised to push North Korea to remove its weapons quickly as it “mechanically and physically” can be done.
Trump also said Kim will be destroying a “major” missile testing site “very soon,” an agreement they came to after signing the document.
Human rights violations
The summit came nearly a year after Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student, died after being brought back to the U.S. The University of Virginia student had been arrested in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster and sentenced…
