Trump-Kim Summit

  • NewsYahoo News Singapore

    COMMENT: Trump-Kim summit and the Singapore complex to impress the world

    If there is an image that sums up the experience of covering the Trump-Kim summit for many journalists, it is a photo tweeted by Bloomberg News journalist Toluse Olorunnipa.

  • PoliticsAFP News

    World can 'sleep well' after N.Korea summit, Trump says

    A jubilant-sounding President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that his "deal" with Kim Jong Un has ended the North Korean nuclear threat, as his top diplomat said he hoped to see "major disarmament" of the country by 2020. Despite the lack of detail, or binding terms in the joint statement agreed with Kim -- which has alarmed a majority of observers of the nuclear standoff -- Trump struck a resolutely bullish tone. "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," he tweeted in one of a

  • PoliticsYahoo News Singapore

    Trump-Kim summit: At least 9 South Koreans involved in separate protests in Singapore; five of them deported

    At least nine South Koreans staged protests in venues linked to the Trump-Kim summit this week, with five of them arrested under the Public Order Act and deported on Wednesday (13 June). In response to media queries, the police said on Wednesday that in consultation with the Attorney-General’s Chambers, they have administered a stern warning to the five South Koreans – all women – following the quintet’s arrest on Monday. The five women were arrested on Monday at around 9.10pm along Tanglin Ro

  • EntertainmentReuters

    Three days with the North Koreans: awkward glances and a scant smile

    At the end of the second night of living in the same ritzy Singapore hotel as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a member of his security staff sat beside a Reuters reporter in the lobby and smiled. For six Reuters journalists covering Kim's historic summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, home for the past three days was the cream-coloured, marble floor lobby of the St. Regis, one of Singapore's most luxurious hotels.

  • EntertainmentReuters

    Trump, Kim co-star in U.S.-made summit film mixing propaganda, Hollywood

    When U.S. President Donald Trump sat down to make the case for peace to North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, he rolled out what amounted to a movie trailer starring the two leaders. Trump said he urged Kim and other North Korean officials to watch a four-minute video produced before the Singapore summit. Trump said Kim and other senior members of the North Korean delegation huddled around an iPad to watch the video, which appeared to draw more from the hype of Hollywood than the carefu

  • PoliticsReuters

    In surprise summit concession, Trump says he will halt Korea war games

    By Steve Holland, Soyoung Kim and Jack Kim SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump made a stunning concession to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday about halting military exercises, pulling a surprise at a summit that baffled allies, military officials and lawmakers from his own Republican Party. At a news conference after the historic meeting with Kim in Singapore, Trump announced he would halt what he called "very provocative" and expensive regular military exercises that t

  • EntertainmentYahoo News Singapore

    ‘Great guy’ Kim Jong Un is sincere in making summit with Trump a success: Dennis Rodman

    Kim Jong Un is a “great guy” with a firm conviction to change his country for the better, said former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, who has met the North Korean leader several times.