INTO THE UN KNOWN
Trump on North Korea deal: Let’s hope for the best
President Trump says his meeting with Kim Jon g-un may lead to a good deal, but “I may stand before yo u in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong.’ ”
President Trump played a bizarre video for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their summit that portrayed the two men as standing at the precipice of the future, poised to make a historic decision.
The four-minute video, produced by Destiny Pictures, showed the former reality-TV star and Kim making speeches, interspersed with images of bullet trains, gleaming modern cities and electric towers stretching into the distance.
“Two men, two leaders, one destiny. A story about a special moment in time when a man is presented with one chance that may never be repeated. What will he choose? To show vision and leadership — or not?” a narrator intones.
He says there can be only two results, “one of moving back,” which is accompanied by images of a jet fighter taking off from an aircraft carrier, “or one of moving forward,” which shows lights blazing across a map of North Korea, cranes working on skyscrapers and a line of high-rise buildings on a dazzling beach.
Trump showed the video — which had English and Korean versions — to Kim on an iPad and it was also played for the media before the president’s news conference.
Ever the real-estate developer, Trump touted North Korea’s waterfront and suggested that Kim was sitting on a gold mine.
“They have great beaches. You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean,” Trump said.