Reuters: North Korean media hails summit as Trump presses for full denuclearization
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.
The North’s KCNA news agency separately released the joint statement North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in presented on Friday after the first summit in more than a decade between the two Koreas.
Kim and Moon had pledged to work for “complete denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula and agreed on a common goal of a “nuclear-free” peninsula.
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Update #1: Koreas summit: North Korean media hail 'historic' meeting (BBC)
Update #2: North Korean state media praises 'historic' Kim-Moon summit (CNN)
WNU Editor: The summit was not broadcast live in North Korea .... Kim Jong Un’s Historic Meeting Was Watched All Over the World, Except in North Korea (Newsweek). But I would not be surprised if people heard about it via through word of mouth, foreign visitors, radio braodcasts from China/South Korea, etc..
