North Korea: Trump Agreed to Lift Sanctions

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands following a signing ceremony during their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore o... TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands following a signing ceremony during their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. - Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un became on June 12 the first sitting US and North Korean leaders to meet, shake hands and negotiate to end a decades-old nuclear stand-off. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reported Wednesday (local time) that US President Donald Trump agreed to lift sanctions on North Korea, in addition to agreeing to halt military exercises and other security guarantees.

According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, KCNA reported: “Trump expressed his intention to halt the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises, which the DPRK side regards as provocation, over a period of good-will dialogue between the DPRK and the U.S., offer security guarantees to the DPRK and lift sanctions against it along with advance in improving the mutual relationship through dialogue and negotiation.”

There was no immediate comment or confirmation from the White House.

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  1. Avatar for nemo nemo says:

    Haha. And I’ll bet they have a recording or transcript of his promise. The fucking clown. Totally out of his depth.

  2. liddle donnie did say Kim has a great sense of humor. Maybe it’s a joke. How do you write bazinga in Korean?

  3. “Who knew foreign policy could be so complicated? Vlad would never double-cross me like this.”

  4. Donald Trump, liberating the mighty and indefatigable North Korean people from the evil depredations of the vile Yankee imperialist rats.

  5. Yes, another freakin’ shitshow! And yet we’re all supposed to believe the Iran deal was horrible, what with it’s multi-national backing and most stringent verification protocols.

    Why bother with all that when President Fuckwit can just give away the farm while slobbering over another brutal dictator.

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