North Koreans watch the displayed local newspapers reporting the summit between the U.S. and North Korea at a subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo taken by Kyodo June 13, 2018. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
Reuters: Trump says North Korea no longer a nuclear threat; North highlights concessions
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, nor is it the “biggest and most dangerous problem” for the United States, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday on his return from a summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The summit was the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader and followed a flurry of North Korean nuclear and missile tests and angry exchanges between Trump and Kim last year that fueled fears of war.
“Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” Trump said on Twitter.
“There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”
On Tuesday, Trump told a news conference after the summit that he would like to lift sanctions against the North but that this would not happen immediately.
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WNU Editor: Too early to make the claim that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat. But at this moment in time it is safe to say that North Korea will not be testing any nuclear weapons or missiles in the near future .... and in my book getting that concession from North Korea is a huge win for President Trump. A concession that I have also noticed has been completely ignored by the Western press, our foreign policy experts, pundits, and politicians (but not in Asia where the focus is more on what North Korea gave up for these talks to happen, not what the U.S. has given up).
