Trump visits DMZ for meeting with North Korea’s Kim
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President Donald Trump made his first visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday for a historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Peering into North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette before the meeting with Kim, Trump was briefed on the North’s extensive artillery across the border that threatens the 35 million residents of Seoul, just over two dozen miles away. “All accessible by what they have in the mountains,” Trump said.
Trump claimed to reporters that, after his first meeting with Kim last year, “all of the danger went away.” He was accompanied by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who said it was the first time the leaders of the United States and South Korea were together at the Demilitarized Zone.
Trump and Moon greeted several dozen U.S. and South Korean troops guarding the Demilitarized Zone. Trump shook hands with the troops and received a gift of a golf jacket from the joint command. “You’re doing a fantastic job,” Trump told service members. “We’re with you all the way.”
