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World Holds its Breath in Anticipation of Trump-Kim Summit

<p>President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Singapore on Sunday to prepare for their landmark meeting&comma; which will take place Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The summit&comma; which will be the first face-to-face meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader&comma; aims to reach a denuclearization agreement for the Korean Peninsula&period; If it works&comma; the meeting will alter global security and go down in history as President Trump&rsquo&semi;s crowning achievement&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Kim regime on Monday announced its agenda for the summit&comma; which includes denuclearization and a permanent peace treaty between North and South Korea&period; According to state-run news agency KCNA&comma; the summit will address &ldquo&semi;wide-ranging and profound views on the issue of establishing new DPRK-US relations&comma; the issue of building a permanent and durable peacekeeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula&comma; the issue of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula&comma; and other issues of mutual concern&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kim in recent months has suggested a willingness to give up his nukes&comma; but his demands on the matter remain unclear&period; In a show of good faith&comma; the regime released three US citizens who had been held hostage in North Korea and blew up its main nuclear test site&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kim is scheduled to depart Singapore just five hours after the summit begins&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8212&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump&comma; on the other hand&comma; has portrayed the summit as a &&num;8220&semi;get to know you&&num;8221&semi; meeting that will not result in a concrete deal&period; Denuclearization is something that will &ldquo&semi;take a period of time&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said&period; &ldquo&semi;At a minimum&comma; I do believe&comma; at least we&rsquo&semi;ll have met each other&period; Hopefully&comma; we will have liked each other and we&rsquo&semi;ll start that process&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump on May 24th canceled the summit due to &ldquo&semi;tremendous anger and open hostility&rdquo&semi; from the Kim regime&period; The meeting was rescheduled after Trump met with diplomat Kim Yong-chol and after Kim met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kim also met with Sec&period; of State Mike Pompeo&comma; who said the Administration&&num;8217&semi;s &ldquo&semi;ultimate objective&rdquo&semi; of denuclearization hasn&rsquo&semi;t changed&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka&comma; all we can really expect from the meeting are moves towards denuclearization and towards a peace treaty&period; &ldquo&semi;Number one is going to be something very large and symbolic that relates to the Korean War and how we can just tie a bow on that conflict and hopefully shut it down&period; And then secondly&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s the far more tactical operational level of technical issues to do with denuclearization&comma; specifically the weapons program that North Korea currently has and the ballistic missile technology&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gorka told Fox News&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;We have the potential now to go from fire and fury with regards to this issue to peace and prosperity&comma;&rdquo&semi; added Gorka&period; There &ldquo&semi;couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be bigger stakes than that&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> If this works&comma; the world changes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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