HANOI: President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dove into the details of nuclear negotiations Thursday amidst speculations about what Kim will give up what and Trump may demand.
Trump is not in a mood to make decisions in haste. “Speed is not important,” Trump said. “What’s important is that we do the right deal,” Trump said.
Accompanied only by translators, the unlikely pair — a 72-year-old billionaire and a 35-year-old reclusive autocrat — displayed a familiarity with one another as they began the day’s negotiations.
After a 40-minute private meeting, the leaders went for a stroll on the Hotel Metropole’s lush grounds, chatting as they walked by a swimming pool before being joined by aides to continue talks, reported news agencies.
Possible outcomes could include a peace declaration for the Korean War that the North could use to eventually push for the reduction of U.S. troops in South Korea, or sanctions relief that could allow Pyongyang to pursue lucrative economic projects with the South.
Skeptics say such agreements would leave in place a significant portion of North Korea’s nuclear-tipped missiles while robbing the United States of its negotiating leverage going forward. Asked if this summit would yield a political declaration to end the Korean War, Trump told reporters on Wednesday: “We’ll see.”
(Agencies)
HANOI: American President Donald Trump says North Korea could thrive economically if it would give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
North Korea could thrive very quickly as the other developed countries if it would denuclearize, Trump tweeted before sitting down with Kim later Wednesday in Hanoi.
“North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is awesome, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong-Un,” Trump tweeted.
Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon – Very Interesting!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2019
Meanwhile, he asked the democrats in Washington why they did not tell North Korea to denuclearize during the eight years of the Obama Administration.
American Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un are holding their second nuclear summit with a one-on-one discussion in the capital city Hanoi as the world is watching on curiously what negotiations will take place between the two.
The two leaders first met last June in Singapore, a summit that was long on historic pageantry but short on any enforceable agreements for North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal.
(With inputs from Agencies)
BOGOTA: The United States has called on its allies to freeze the assets of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA.
The US on Monday targeted Venezuela’s government with new sanctions after violence blocked humanitarian aid from reaching the country.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions have been imposed on four Venezuelan state governors.
Colombia’s foreign minister has warned about “credible threats to the life” of Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has mounted pressure to the United Nations Security Council asking it to discuss Venezuela’s situation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Vietnam for the second round of summit with US President Donald Trump.
The second summit follows the first round of talks in 2018 in Singapore.
Ceremonial guards and flag-waving crowds welcomed him at the station, according to reports.
Likewise, US President Trump is due to arrive in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, on Tuesday evening.
The two leaders will meet for a one-on-one conversation on Wednesday evening, reports said. (Agencies)
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said he would be ‘happy as long as North Korea maintains its pause on testing of its weapon. He also said he was in no rush to strike a nuclear deal with its leader, Kim Jong Un, during their second summit this week, reports have said.
Trump and Un are meeting in Vietnam’s Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday. The Hanio summit is being held eight months after their Singapore summit.
The two leaders have already pledged to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Kim has already made his way across China by train for the summit. Meanwhile, media reports have said that North Korean state media has warned Trump to refrain from listening to U.S. critics who were trying to “disrupt the efforts to improve ties”. (Agencies)
TEXAS: Authorities have said two bodies have been retrieved from the wreckage of an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane that crashed into a bay outside Houston on Saturday.
All the three people aboard the Boeing 767 cargo jetliner died in the crash while it was approaching Houston’s George Bush International Airport, Atlas and Boeing Co said in a statement on Sunday.
Two bodies were recovered while the search continued for the third person, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne informed a press conference.
A five second security video from a local jail showed the fatal crash, US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt.
(Agencies)
Directed by Manchhiring Tamang, documentary ‘A Day in the Life of a Himalayan Shepherd’ is based on the day of a shepherd of a northernmost part of Nepal’s Dhading district.
The documentary focuses on a Tamang community; an ethnic group that depends on cattle rearing for the last three centuries.
The film features shepherd from this culturally rich community who is in dilemma whether to ask his children to continue his profession or to let them find opportunities elsewhere.
The documentary will be shown at the 2019 Colony Short Film Festival beginning March 1 in Ohio.
WASHINGTON: The United States will leave at least 200 American peacekeeping group in Syria for a certain period of time after a U.S. pullout, agencies have said quoting the White House.
President Donald Trump in December last year ordered a withdrawal of the 2,000 American troops in Syria. He said the troops had defeated the Islamic State (IS) militants there.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement that a small peacekeeping group will remain in Syria for a certain period of time, reports have said.
However, according to international news agencies, Trump has been under pressure from several advisers to adjust his policy to ensure the protection of Kurdish forces. The Kurdish forces supported the fight against the IS militants.
MIAMI: U.S. President Donald Trump has warned the Venezuela’s military, loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, that they are risking their future, and urged them to allow humanitarian aid into the country.
Speaking to a crowd of Venezuelan and Cuban immigrants in Miami, Trump warned if Venezuela’s military continues to support Maduro, they will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. They will lose everything.
Maduro, however, reacted that Trump’s speech was “nazi-style” alleging Trump of acting as if he were the owner of Venezuela and the citizens his slaves. (Reuters)
CUCUTA, Colombia: A U.S. military transport plane with humanitarian aid meant for Venezuelans landed in the Colombian border city of Cucuta. The food and medicine is being stored, according to Reuters, remains uncertain over how and where it will be distributed.
Reports said the shipment is the second arrival of large-scale U.S. and international aid for Venezuelans. (Agencies)