Here’s a summary of the main points from the summit and the reaction to it:

• Donald Trump has agreed to suspend military exercises with South Korea in return for a commitment to denuclearisation from Kim Jong-un. Trump conceded that the war games were provocative, inappropriate and very expensive. Both the South Korean government and US forces in the region appear to have been taken by surprise by Trump’s suspension of joint military exercises.
• Trump hailed the summit as a “very important event in world history”, claiming Kim has given his “unwavering” commitment to dismantle its “very substantial” nuclear arsenal. But he gave few details or specific timeframe saying denuclearisation “takes a long time scientifically”.
• International observers will be deployed to verify North Korea’s denuclearisation, Trump insisted despite the lack of a commitment to this in the agreement the two leaders signed. Trump said he looked forward to lifting sanctions once “nukes are no longer a factor”.
• Trump heaped praise on Kim for ushering in a “glorious new era of prosperity for his people”. Trump said he trusted Kim, got on with him, and said he was a “very talented” negotiator, but denied that he saw Kim as his equal. He claimed that a US video of the summit would not be used by Kim for propaganda purposes.
• Kim will be invited the White House at the appropriate time, Trump said. The president also agreed to travel to Pyongyang at an appropriate time.
• When they met the two leaders greeted each other with a 12-second handshake and were later recorded exchanging banter. Kim compared the summit to a science fiction movie. When Trump quipped about photographers making the leaders look “handsome and thin”, Kim looked nonplussed.
• North Korea’s human rights record was discussed at length during the talks, Trump claimed. He said the 100,000 people in North Korean gulags would be among the big winners from the summit.
• The US and North Korea also agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war from the conflict between North and South Korea, and the immediate repatriation of those already identified.
• China welcomed the summit as historic and said the international community could consider lifting sanctions. The fact that the two leaders “can sit together and have equal talks has important and positive meaning, and is creating a new history,” the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, told reporters. He also talked of the need for a peace mechanism for the peninsula.
• The summit is being seen as better for North Korea than the US. John Everard, the UK’s former ambassador to North Korea, says Trump’s commitment to end war games was “big win” for Kim. He also pointed out that the US would have to play its part in denuclearisation of the peninsula. “I’m not sure just how far Donald Trump has realised what he has signed,” he said.
• Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said he was willing to engage with North Korea to resolve the cold war abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korean spies. “I’m determined that Japan will have to directly face North Korea and resolve (the abductions) bilaterally,” Abe told reporters.
• South Korea said the summit would usher in a “new chapter in peace and cooperation”. President Moon Jae-in warned there may be “many difficulties ahead, but we will never go back to the past again”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/jun/12/trump-kim-summit-meeting-singapore-us-president-north-korea-kim-jong-un-