Triumphant Trump gets Korea ‘to ditch nukes’
DONALD Trump last night boasted he had saved 40 million lives after he signed a landmark denuclearisation pact with North Korea.
The US President warmly embraced tyrant Kim Jong-un after breakthrough talks in Singapore yesterday.
Trump said: “If nuclear war would have happened, potentially you could have lost 30million or 40million people.
“This is really an honour for me to do this.”
Kim affirmed an “unwavering commitment” to an agreement which pledges to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, said Trump.
As part of the deal the US, which has around 23,000 troops in South Korea, will suspend the military exercises it regularly holds near the border.
The North has long complained that these war games are “provocative”.
The US President also said he would like to see American troops withdrawn from the South, as the two countries work towards “new relations”.
But he said that tough sanctions on the hermit nation would remain in place for now, adding: “We haven’t given up anything.” Most of the sanctions were imposed after the country tried to develop nuclear weapons – something it may now abandon.
He said: “We’re ready to write a new chapter between our two nations.”
The Republican predicted that
TEARFUL: Basketball star Rodman Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme will end and claimed Kim would implement it as soon as he returned home.
Trump added: “I believe he’s going to live up to that document.”
Meanwhile, ex basketball star Dennis Rodman – one of the few Westerners to have met Kim – broke down in tears during an interview on the summit.
The 57-year-old claimed the White House had already called him to say the president is “so proud of you” and he described Kim as just a “big kid”.
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