WATCH: Trump Steps Across Korean Border To Shake Hands With Kim Jong-Un

US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Sau... US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped into the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the South and North Korea to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.

Trump, who has heaped praise upon Kim, is the first sitting American president to walk across the Korean border.

The President’s faced a lot of criticism for his friendly relationship with the dictator, whose brutal regime is reportedly responsible for the deaths of its own top diplomats and American Otto Warmbier. Despite Kim’s bloody record, Trump has often sided with the dictator as they negotiate North Korea’s nuclear arsenal (despite Trump’s claims, North Korea has not agreed to denuclearize and is in fact testing missiles).

Watch Trump cross the border below:

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  1. Why, oh why, didn’t the North Korean Guards shoot the person who just fled over their border… What happened to their protocols???

  2. I appreciate this article because it truly portrays 45* as the groundbreaking, wonderful leader that he is.
    But I confess, am concerned that besides blaming Kim for Warmbler and top Korean officials deaths, it leaves out the thousands also killed in their concentration camps and by starvation.
    But still, all hail brave and wonderous 45*!

  3. Avatar for krux krux says:

    :face_vomiting:

    It will be really nice when the emoji’s are working again.

  4. I’m pretty sure that no one is allowed to have a bullet in their gun when Dear Leader is around.

  5. Why did South Korea let him back in?

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