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President Trump was met with skepticism at home and abroad as he upended decades of U.S. policy and heaped praise on North Korea leader Kim Jong Un for his vague commitment to reaching “complete denuclearization.”
Trump capped the historic summit with a stunning announcement about halting annual military exercises with South Korea — and said he's considering removing the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South.
“We're ready to write a new chapter between our nations,” Trump after spending five hours with Kim in Singapore, calling the talks “honest, direct and productive.”
Critics, and more than a few supporters, saw the move as a major concession made after the issuance of an ambiguous joint declaration that offered scant details about Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear arsenal.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) dismissed Trump's sitdown with Kim as nothing more than “a reality show summit.”
Schumer, speaking on the Senate floor, said Trump has already given up American leverage on North Korea.
The “meeting alone will be a victory for North Korea and a defeat for the U.S.,” if Pyongyang doesn't give up its nuclear weapons.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called the meeting a “major first step,” in U.S.-North Korea relations, but not a decisive one if North Korea does not follow through.
Trump's declaration about halting drills caught South Korean officials off guard.
Seoul's presidential office told The Associated Press that it was trying to parse Trump's comments. The country's military seemed similarly surprised.
“At this current point, there is a need to discern the exact meaning and intent of President Trump's comments,” Seoul's Defense Ministry said, adding that there have been no discussions yet with Washington on modifying drills set for August.
U.S. forces in South Korea said it has “received no updated guidance on the execution or cessation of training exercises” and will continue to coordinate with South Korean partners and maintain the current posture until it receives an updated guidance from the Department of Defense or the Indo-Pacific Command.
In North Korea, state media focused on the announcement about the drills, and said Kim was moving “to put an end to the extreme hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S.”
Trump also hinted at a future in which American soldiers are no longer stationed on the peninsula. “I want to bring our soldiers back home,” Trump said, although he added that it's “not part of the equation right now.”
The vague joint declaration issued by Trump and Kim following their lunch of short ribs, pork and Häagen-Dazs ice cream offered few details about any concessions being made by Kim's regime, although Trump characterized the document as “comprehensive.”
“We got to know each other well in a very confined period of time, under very strong, strong circumstance,” Trump said of his short time with Kim. “We had a great chemistry.”
Earlier, the President showered the despotic dictator he once labeled “Little Rocket Man” with flattery, calling him “a very talented man” who “loves his country very much.”
Experts said it was no surprise that despite the lack of details Trump tried to cast the whirlwind summit as a diplomatic win.
“Trump wanted a big spectacle and he was more concerned with the optics of the summit, not the substance,” Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the bipartisan think tank Arms Control Association, told the Daily News. “He wanted to prove he is a master dealmaker, its not a surprise he would declare a victory.”
Trump, in a throwback to his dealmaking days, also bizarrely praised North Korea's beaches and envisioned condos on the country's shores before suggesting economic sanctions could be lifted earlier than experts thought possible. He added that he will “absolutely” invite Kim to the White House.