Trump Says Kim Jong Un Agreed To Destroy ‘Major’ Missile Testing Site

U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Canada to attend the G7 summit before heading to Singapore on Saturday for a planned U.S.-North Korea summit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump said North Korea’s Kim Jong Un agreed to destroy a “major” missile testing site, but didn’t offer details.

Trump also said he thinks “we’ll probably need another summit”— or at least a second meeting — with Kim as they discuss the North Korean leader’s commitment to denuclearization.

But Trump told reporters in Singapore on Tuesday that he and Kim were able to cover far more ground than he’d expected.

He says, “We’re much further along than I would have thought.”

He added that he really believes North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is going to make good on his promise to denuclearize.

Trump said near the end of a lengthy press conference that he may be wrong about Kim, but he’ll never admit it.

He joked that he “may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong.'” But he says, “I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that.”

Trump appeared to be in a good spirits as he answered questions for almost an hour following a day of meetings with Kim and other North Korean officials.

He ended by congratulating reporters and saying he’s eager to “take it a little bit easy” now that the highly anticipated summit is over.

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  1. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Well that was easy. Now if Trump could be trusted.

  2. Spanky is “going to take it easy” for a while. What, golf four days a week, working 2 hours on the other three days? Don’t strain yourself, you might bust a blood vessel.

  3. In the next one, he will push for a re-united Korea with his new talented and trusted buddy L’il Kimmie as the Supreme Leader…

    John Bolton will be offered for live target practice in the DMZ…

  4. he’s eager to “take it a little bit easy” now that the highly anticipated summit is over.

    Well, he ought to, with all of the studying and preparation he did.

    Any word from South Korea or Japan yet?

  5. Avatar for 10c 10c says:

    We can only hope…

    Damn press conference was longer than the meeting.

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