What is the historical significance of the US-North Korea meeting?

The US-North Korea meeting was a successful and historic meeting, especially in bringing the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue into the track of dialogue and resolution, bringing hope for peace to the peninsula.

The meeting between the United States and North Korea is an important opportunity to further enhance mutual respect and trust and push bilateral relations into a new stage. In order to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the epoch-making development of DPRK-US relations, we will continue to maintain close contact and continue constructive dialogue to resolve the issues discussed at the Hanoi meeting.

The efforts and proactive measures taken by the U.S.-North Korea meeting to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, promote peace and achieve complete denuclearization have played an important role in building mutual trust and fundamentally changing the relationship between North Korea and the United States. A decade of sustained distrust and hostility has significant implications.

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Since 2018, the US-North Korea summit*** has been held twice, on June 12, 2018 and February 27, 2019. -Held on February 28th.

At 9:00 on June 12, 2018, the leaders of North Korea and the United States shook hands in Singapore and held one-on-one talks for about 40 minutes in the following time.

The DPRK and the United States later held meetings with Kim Yong Chol, Minister of the North Korean United Front, Ri Su Yong, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Ri Yong Ho, North Korean Foreign Minister, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and US Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. John Robert Bolton, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and others participated in the expanded meeting.

At 11:30, ***15 people, including participants, had a working lunch in the Chinese restaurant. At 14:00, North Korea and the United States signed a joint statement. At 16:00, US President Trump held a press conference for the media at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island to announce the results of the meeting.

On the evening of February 27, 2019, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un met with U.S. President Trump in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, kicking off the second meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States. The leaders of the DPRK and the United States met at the Sofitel Legend Metropolitan Hotel in Hanoi. The two shook hands in front of the media cameras with 12 national flags of the two countries staggered as a background.

On the morning of February 28, 2019, Kim Jong-un and Trump held one-on-one talks and large-scale delegation talks as planned. At around 13:30 local time, the motorcades of the North Korean and American delegations left the venue separately, and the originally scheduled signing ceremony of the agreement was not held.

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