During a joint press conference South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump announced and confirmed that President Trump will meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un at the demilitarized zone for a historic handshake today.
UPDATE: Video Added
The schedule is fluid. Anticipated time should be around 1:30am to 2:00am U.S. Eastern Time. Most international broadcasts should carry live.
South Korea Livestream 1 – JTBC Livestream Link – SBS Livestream Link –
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if Fake News covered a weedding, they’d miss the vows and kiss!!!
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You mean they would miss the dandelions & would be crying from pulling the thorny American Beauty Rose…
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Trump, Kim, and Moon exited building at 3:52am EST. All were relaxed and talking and Kim was smiling. The meeting lasted about 30-40 mins. They left one building and entered another.
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For my father and other veterans that served in the Korean War today was a big deal. Thank you for your service
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Yes, a very big deal for those vets. A big thank you to your dad and all his battle buddies.
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AMEN.
And…to One of Many We Lost…
In Loving Memory: Pfc Roy E. “Bud” Koenig, S&H Co., 1/1/1 USMC, KIA 4/24/1951 at “Horseshoe Ridge”, awarded Silver Star and Purple Heart for his efforts. Semper Fi
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Its easy to forget and some young people today appear completely ignorant of the fact that soldiers rarely get to choose where they go or which wars they fight, soldiers of every nation obey orders and that western soldiers fight so hard and so well is an indication of the courage it takes to be in a foreign land living with unknown languages and unknown customs and not just surviving but winning, not just a war but the hearts and minds of the people. Well done all western soldiers they put the rest of us to shame
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THANK YOU PATRIOTS!
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My only son married a 1st generation Korean American at the Korean War Memorial in Washington DC 6 yrs ago. Can’t wait to hear what her Mom has to say because she was pessimistic last year. I’m the only Trump supporter in my whole family so I’m very quiet around them.
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President Trump out now and commenting. Meeting almost an hour!!!!
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Trump said they have agreed to have team meetings to further negotiations. Very positive. Trump, of course says “we’ll see what happens”.
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He sees though the surface; I think some of his feelings for Kim are paternal.
I am thinking that Kim will be smart enough to heed the president’s golden counsel, which can only help him.
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The meeting is over. They exited the building. Kim was smiling, talking, looked excited. So did Moon. PT was between them looking stern. They walked to the demarcation line. Then JTBc’s camera person didn’t follow them for the goodbye! Too many journalists to see it. PT is now taking questions.
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Sundance, again thank you for sharing your platform, your voice, & this amazing CTH community. I can’t help but think with this historic walk to the “North” & the hand shake, what do the DNC candidates have to offer in comparison? Harris walking over to spend time with Willie Brown, or Warren walking over to the salad bar at Harvard? This amazing Potus is a once in a lifetime phenomenon. Washington, Lincoln, Coolidge, Reagan, Trump!
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Moon praises President Trump as bold and creative.
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Accurate description
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Denuclearization and Peace Treaty! possible…
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last picture was supposed to be:
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It feels much better to see Kim as a human being than as a monster to fear and loath. It feels more Christian. Tonight I felt true sympathy for him, and I was touched when President Trump gently patted him on the back to show fatherly support. I think he is a very lonely individual who has wanted to reach out; he tried via Dennis Rodman and basketball, and the rejection of his efforts back then must have strung.
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K.K.–interesting you mention Dennis Rodman. If Trump gets a bonafide peace treaty signed, and the Peninsula denuclearized, we can expect the Norwegians to give the Peace Prize to Dennis Rodman!
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Actually… having listened to Dennis Rodman describe his initiative to reach out to Kim, I think Rodman DOES deserve recognition. Other people who have gone to North Korea have been tortured and made captive. Rodman took initiative. Based on what he has said in interviews, Rodman sees other human beings as individuals, and deals with others that way… Rodman is eccentric but, like our President, bold and creative. I am grateful for his initiative here
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So true. Roman and Trump.
Also I’m hoping T can save Kims life. Would be a major achievement in itself.
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After that Obama Peace Prize, I consider the entire Nobel laureate thing a bit of a joke. Trump wont miss the money and Rodman may actually need it.
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Here’s the link for POTUS’ speech to the troops.
The meeting is over. They exited the building. Kim was smiling, talking, looked excited. So did Moon. PT was between them looking stern. They walked to the demarcation line. Then JTBc’s camera person didn’t follow them for the goodbye! Too many journalists to see it. PT is now taking questions.
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If you were to stack all 24 democrat candidates for President, one on top of another, you wouldn’t even come close to reaching DJT’s natural leadership ability.
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They wouldn’t be higher than the curb.
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In total, they are lower than whale sh?t, even with 0hole and hillarie on top, IMO
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These people are Iconoclasts. They only know how to tear things down. They have no idea how to make things great, which is why they Hate Trump so severely. It should be a lesson to the American people. Choose Presidents who know how to do something besides sh*t where they eat. Even Pigs don’t do that.
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Watching the live Korean station. Makes me realize how bad our media has become. What a shame we don’t have that level of news here. I remember years ago, we once had live coverage of major events. By not having this historic event on every station live, their display of contempt for our President is sad and shameful. The American media deserve nothing but scorn.
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The American media is divisive, warmongering, and not to be trusted
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I was saddened and stunned(still, I know), that I had to YouTube this from a s.korean news stream.And I had to enter the complete phrase “Trump meeting in south korea” to even find that.
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How true!
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At this rate VSG45 is going to achieve world Peace and have nothing left to do but golf for his last three years in office.
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Nope reach for the stars – fusion energy and the beginning of interstellar space travel. (My fervent wish but what an achievement that would be.)
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One of my dreams too.
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Sorry and don’t beat me up too badly, but I really really expected them to sign the Korean peace treaty
Now the Sunday talk shows will just write this off as a photo op
#Bummed
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THAT is ALL they DO, BitterC!!
SPIN. (DECEPTION)
Think about that for a minute.
All You Get Is SPIN. (DECEPTION)
It Is All They Have To Offer, BitterC.
That, Is What They EXCEL In.
That Is What Should Be Expected.
SPIN is an innocuous term for… DECEPTION!!
Why… Expect anything else?
Nothing more than a shell game…
With The TRUTH!
WHY, does the Corporate Media Complain They Haven’t Been “Consulted”?
Aren’t They Supposed To “REPORT” the News… Not BE THE NEWS!!
NOT “SHAPE” The News!!!
NOT “Massage” The News!!!
I Mean, Really…
Who Ya Gonna Believe… THEM
OR YOUR LYING EYES!!!
You Have, I HOPE, Have Just Witnessed HISTORY!
NOT, In The Making.
IT IS DONE!!!
How Do You SPIN…. THE OBVIOUS!!!
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then they will miss the chess move that has happened ….. as they always do……….
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BitterC – “Now the Sunday talk shows will just write this off as a photo op”
… And these assClowns matter how?
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Because some of us appear to let them bum them out.
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Tucker Carlson’s observations of this event will be highly interesting and solid.
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Hardly, he called in again.
Very unusual reporting on his part.
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This event was worth rising early to watch. Wow! Hope to hear later from my son who is stationed in South Korea. I wish my father – a Korean War vet – was alive to see this.
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It was worth every second I spent watching this historic event!
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In the closing comments, President Trump thanked Kim and said that the meeting with Kim was solid and strong. They are going to get it right, not speed. The President said that they had a long chat. It was very positive.
When President Trump reached the demarcation line, he asked Kim if he could come into North Korea. He said he did that not knowing what Kim’s answer would be. Kim said he would be honored and invited him to come into North Korea.
After they passed over into the south to meet, in the gaggle with the press, President Trump said that Kim was welcome to come to the United States. At some point it will happen he added. Later he described it as saying to Kim, you will come to the States.
Later President Trump countered the press narrative and said that the Hanoi meeting earlier was a great success. They went on to build their relationship.
Their relationship was not lost on the more observant and honest South Korean media, (Arirang TV) They noted the warm relationship between Kim and President Trump. As Maquis has noted above. at one point President Trump patted Kim on the back as a father would a son, Kim immediately beamed a smile in return.
This is such a moving personal drama between Kim and President Trump. Thank you Sundance for opening our eyes to the whole hostage dynamic that is the real story that explains all the facts.
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Can’t wait for 2020+. We’ve elected a conquerer who knows how to drive the wheel. America has proven itself once again. Let’s keep going.
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My insomniac-like sleep schedule paid big dividends tonight. Live history.
Awesome.
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Thanking Almighty God for our POTUS
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Thanking Almighty God for our POTUS
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Yes !
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Sarah sanders replacement
Grisham suffered bruises when a scuffle broke out Sunday between North Korean security guards and members of the media trying to get close to President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as they shook hands at the Demilitarized Zone, the Associated Press reported.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-roughed-up-by-north-korean-security-guards
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There was a big blonde lady with a pony tail and a huge handbag pushing people around all over the place. I wonder who she was.
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Yes I too wondered about the blonde with the pony tail. She seemed a bit of an aggressive biddy. It was funny actually.
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The US press looked like savages. An absolutely feckless group of savages with no respect or decorum.They are the real American embarrassment.
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I agree rojobirds, they act like a pack of hyenas. It is terrible and they should be ashamed.
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I’ve voiced my opinion about Grisham from the day she was announced as Sarah’s replacement. I DON’T LIKE HER and never have. Let’s see how often she tries to make the news about her and grab headlines for herself. I said three weeks before the cracks start to show.
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Um…She has been FLOTUS’ fierce spokesperson and defender. POTUS, FLOTUS, and Sarah herself are quite comfortable with her stepping up to the reins of Press Secretary. The position is way more than giving briefings. A great deal of behind-the-scenes coordination with the media takes place and she is already skilled in that.
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Not Grisham’s fault the corrupt commie media act like the jackboot thugs that they are……and that she was caught up in the typical Communist behavior by said Pravda presstitutes.
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Pres. Trump’s success in many areas is unique, unprecedented… there’s method in this seeming madness –who expected this 30 months ago?– but the “editorial question” of what to emphasize and how much weight to give it is el Presidente’s instinctive stock-in-trade.
All we can think of is, had MzBill slimed her way to orifice in 2016 circumstances would be culminating in disturbances recalling Russia’s pre-revolutionary “July Days” of 1917.
Down the road, this surely is a MAGA milestone. On-track to peaceably resolving Korea’s frozen stasis dating from Panmunjom in 1954, from Nobel Committee to U.S. Congress, will Trump receive due recognition for this historic coup? Nah. No rubber-booted casino-hotel builder’s gonna join our solipsistic, unhinged Green-and-Red Door Club.
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Not long ago, the Nobel Prize committees decided to reorganize and correct a perceived deficiency. To this end, they would select, on a yearly basis, an awardee for being the worse lying politician pursuing communist goals and outcomes. Embarrassed to call it such, they agreed on using the pre-existing Peace Prize for this purpose and promptly proceeded to select Al Gore and Barry Obama, among others.
Do you think they would make an exception and consider giving their next award to PDJT for bringing to an end an 8-decade long war conflict? No way. Totally out of their communist by laws.
Oh, well. We will reward PDJT with the biggest monster reelection vote ever recorded in the USA.
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President Trump told us ‘peace is the prize.’
The sitting POTUS is always referred to as “leader of the free world.” Most likely, only applicable to President Trump, I’d say he is Leader of the World.
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Jumped the shark when they gave it to Yasser Arafat
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Frankly, I would not want them to give their “award” to our POTUS….it means nothing anymore and would almost be an insult!
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Above, another Treeper, Robert Smith, noted the openness of the South Korean press and their willingness to look at what was really happening. They didn’t get everything right but it was refreshing to hear.
They said: The big winner was president Trump. He showed that he can meet with Kim any time that he wants to. The road to Pyongyang now goes through Washington. This was a warning to China. They cannot use North Korea as leverage. Forget about it.
That is pretty bold commentary from the South Korean press. In essence they are saying that President Trump took the ball away from Xi.
They said that Kim did not look so good. President Trump asked for him to come and he did. (They don’t know the backstory. They were working together on this. Excellent content). Then they went on to say that Kim is saying that he can now meet directly with Washington and does not need South Korea.
The South Korean press said this was a smart tactical move by President Trump. It turned out to be an ad-hoc summit.
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The Greatest President making history his way!
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for they will be called the children of God
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Contrast our POTUS on this historic visit with the immature, pandering, “America last” group of Dems on the debate stage this week. I am so happy and proud to have our great nation represented by this statesman. No doubt, many people around the world long for the leadership our POTUS exhibits, and respect him despite what the media tells us.
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Men must be allowed free abortions…
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The way the U.S. press is covering this is disgusting.
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Eric..what you can expect from airheaded clowns..but it’s good whole world can see what they are,few days ago we seen 20+court jesters wanna be president…I hope general public on other side get sense what they are…
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Don’t let the b@st@rds get you down, Mr. President!
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Illegitimi non carborandum!
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Watched live while history being made. Incredible.
The Nork Whisperer in action.
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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If you missed Ohio Representative Paul Ryan, you might think President Trump gave away nuclear secrets to Kim. Ryan was on Maria B. and made a fool of himself.
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Maria has Ryan on for over 20 of the 37 min. Too bad as Pillsbury was well worth the ~5 min he was on. Glad SD has an article on Huawei. My next read
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First assignment New White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham takes some lumps while directing the press into the House of Freedom.
Watch out press Grisham is no nonsense and won’t take it from anyone. Good pick for Press Sec.
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