Here's the full text of 'historic' document Trump, Kim signed at North Korea summit

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a joint statement on Tuesday after their historic meetings in Singapore.

Read the full statement as seen in photos below:

Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit

President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a first, historic summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018.

President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new US-DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Convinced that the establishment of new US-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building cam promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following:

1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.

2. The United States and DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.

3 Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

Having acknowledged that the US-DPRK summit – the first in history – was an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un commit to implement the stipulations in the joint statement fully and expeditiously. The United States and the DPRK commit to hold follow-on negotiations, led by the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and a relevant high-level DPRK official, at the earliest possible date, to implement the outcomes of the US-DPRK summit.

President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the development of new US-DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and the security of the Korean Peninsula and of the world.

DONALD J. TRUMP

President of the United States of America

KIM JONG UN

Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

June 12, 2018

Sentosa Island

Singapore

Happening now: Trump thanks regional leaders, says North Korea ready to destroy missile site

Trump begins by thanking "incredible hosts" Singapore, especially PM Lee. He also thanked the South Korean, Japanese and Chinese leaders.

He describes summit with North Korea an unprecedented meeting. It proves that real change is indeed possible, he says. He describes the meeting as honest, direct and productive.

"We're prepared to start a new history, a new chapter between our nations."

"We signed a joint statement that is an unwavering commitment to complete denuclearisation of North Korea," he says.

"Chairman Kim told me that North Korea has already started destroying a major missile engine testing site."

"We dream of a future where all Koreans can live in harmony where light of peace chases away the darkness of war, it's right there, it's witihin our reach. People thought this could never take place."

In the meantime, sanctions will remain in place, he said.

Responding to a question, Trump said he was not reducing US troop presence in South Korea but would be stopping war games.

Trump also said that Korean war will ‘soon end’.

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

Happening now: Trump says human rights ‘was discussed’ with Kim

It will be discussed more in the future, said Trump. "I had countless calls, letters, tweets, they want the remains of their sons, fathers, mothers back that got caught in the really brtual war.

I asked for it today and we got it. The remains are going to come back… 6,000 remains will be brought back," he said.

Human rights records was discussed relatively briefly to denuclearisation.

Trump said some of the people in press are saying that the president has agreed to meet Kim and given up so much.

"But we haven't given up anything, we agreed to meet and the meeting is every bit good for us as it is for North Korea. I just wrote down some of the things we got but only a person who dislikes Donald Trump would say I've agreed to make a big commitment," he said.

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

Disneyland Pyongyang? Can Trump Co-Opt Kim?

One of the pleasures for many – except, of course, for the Deep State and the media – of the Trump presidency is the way Donald flouts [corrected] conventional wisdom. Now, if we are to believe Axios, he is taking a unique approach to the imminent negotiations with Kim Jong-un.

Part of Trump's expected message is telling Kim how much wealthier he and his people would be if he were engaged with the U.S. A source familiar with the U.S. preparations says Trump likes the idea of iconic American businesses, like McDonald's, eventually getting to North Korea.

Trump will insist that the price of engagement — and modern relationships and amenities — is the start of a denuclearization process, a source close to the White House told Axios.

McDonald's? I'm not sure the American College of Cardiology would approve. But there are other more heart-healthy blandishments like, say, Disneyland Pyongyang!

Who could resist that? Well, we'll see. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I eat more than my share of Big Macs.)

Nevertheless, Trump's madness has a method and not just because of Dennis Rodman's well-known bromance with Kim. Think back to the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures by North Korean (most probably government) hackers under the moniker "Guardians of Peace," aka "#GOP."

Those hackers had a remarkably clear vision of the Hollywood gestalt and were able to expose the supposedly liberal studio execs as closet racists. Did that sting! (They had to run to @TheRevAl – America's favorite hypocrite – for absolution.)

The NORKs' attack was superficially aimed at preventing the premiere of a forthcoming Sony comedy called The Interview about an assassination attempt on Kim. But the hackers' specific knowledge of Tinseltown – how it works, especially from that far distance – was also a demonstration of an overweening fascination with American popular culture. It was in the grand tradition of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, knowing and then becoming your enemy. And why would they care about some dumb Hollywood movie in the first place?

https:// pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/disneyland-pyongyang-can-trump-co-opt-kim/

How Trump Made Diplomacy Great Again

Obama was attacked as ‘naive’ and ‘weak’ for talking to America’s enemies. Trump is turning it into a political asset.

When candidate Barack Obama said in a 2007 debate that he’d meet with the leaders of rogue states—including North Korea—without preconditions, critics pounced: Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped his “lack of foreign policy expertise” and called the idea “disturbing” and “naive.” His Democratic primary rival, Hillary Clinton, called him “irresponsible and frankly naive.”

Months into Obama’s presidency, Republicans ripped him again when he exchanged pleasantries briefly with Hugo Chavez, the late dictator of Venezuela, on the margins of a Latin America summit. One Republican senator called it “irresponsible” for the president to be photographed “laughing and joking” with an anti-American leader like Chavez.

It was all part of a pattern: Obama would argue that it was more effective to bring even the most hostile and isolated of America’s enemies in from the cold than to constantly threaten them with war, and Republicans would bash him for his supposed naivete. Obama shrugged off the attacks. As he explained his thinking in a 2015 interview with Fareed Zakaria: “You don’t negotiate deals with your friends. You negotiate them with your enemies.”

Obama took the most heat for his outreach to Iran—long perhaps the most cartoonish of American adversaries, with its funding of suicide bombers and chants of “Death to America.“ Forty-seven GOP senators even sent Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, a letter in 2015 warning him that any deal with Obama over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program might well be oveturned by a future president. Republicans fumed that Obama seemed friendlier to Khamenei than he did to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister whose vocal opposition to the nuclear talks fueled GOP arguments that the deal was fatally flawed and weak. Often, the very idea of talking with adversaries was painted as inherently soft. Sen Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was typical when he blasted Obama’s plan for “a nuclear arms control agreement with a sworn enemy.”

Flash forward to today, and what are Republicans saying about the current president’s willingness—eagerness, even—to cut a nuclear deal with the most roguish leader of them all, North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un?

https:// www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/11/trump-north-korea-talks-singapore-diplomacy-218674

'Sitting Bull in a china shop': G-7 photo is latest attempt to embarrass Trump, latest failure

Call it “Sitting Bull in a china shop.”

A stunning picture. Live. Real. Raw. Tense. Wit’s end fury.

At the focal point in the picture: Total calm.

Arms crossed, suit-coat slightly rumpled. Seated. Eyes open, passive, unseeing. Mouth set contentedly.

President Trump, leader of the free world, G-1, sits in a room surrounded by utterly powerless and exhausted G-6, like weary parents whose child has gone through all 17 stages of an airport meltdown tantrum and has — finally — decided to just sit on the floor.

Arms crossed. Unmovable.

Vintage Donald Trump.

The picture — dispatched to the world by a fed up German diplomat inside the Canadian china shoppe — is marvelous for so many reasons. Not the least of which is that it’s the latest attempt by Mr. Trump’s detractors desperate to embarrass him — only to have it backfire.

No doubt if you are a self-regarding elite globalist enthralled with being loved by European leaders, then, sure, you will be shredded with rage over this picture showing an obdurate U.S. president — sitting arms crossed, uncaring — as the entire cabal of global leaders tries in vain to curb him, force him into line.

How dare the president of the United States shirk the august authority of the global puppet masters!

But, then again, you already hated the guy.

What Mr. Trump’s detractors are too dumb to understand is that it is precisely for these reasons that this picture brings Mr. Trump’s supporters to their feet cheering the president’s defiance in the face of such pearl-clutching wrath and fury.

And by “Mr. Trump’s supporters,” I simply mean regular patriotic Americans who want an American president to represent America’s interests instead of everybody else’s.

In the picture, America’s Sitting Bull president looks straight ahead, past all the global glares. He is surrounded as if the subject of some kind of opioid addiction intervention.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel — hands planted on the table between them — leans toward Mr. Trump, glowering intensely. Off to the side is Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — arms crossed, deep bags under his eyes from sleepless nights — staring off in drained frustration.

To be fair, this picture does not depict the first time this century that American interests were at striking odds against those of Germany and Japan. But — lucky for Ms. Merkel and Mr. Abe — we Americans are a forgiving people. We moved on before and will move on again.

After fighting some final rear-guard action over Twitter as he left Canada, President Sitting Bull flew to Singapore.

As he opens talks with North Korea in hopes of eliminating another Axis of Evil without firing a shot, the entire global intelligentsia is left sputtering and gasping over his highly undiplomatic behavior — I’m sorry, “behaviour” — in the Land of Loons.

Well, it’s probably worth remembering at a moment like this that every single ticking time bomb around the world today — from Iran to Syria to Russia to Afghanistan to North Korea — every single one of them is the work product of all the great global diplomatic geniuses like Angela Merkel and John Kerry and Barack Obama.

All of these great diplomats either caused the problems that Mr. Trump inherited or they ignored them so long that they festered into a much worse and much more dangerous problems.

Like North Korea. After years of “strategic indifference,” as the haughty diplomats call it, North Korea is now a nuclear nation with long range missiles helmed by a short, fat, murderous little jarhead, a hermit-crab of a despot.

All the great diplomats before have failed.

Let’s see what President Sitting Bull can do.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/10/donald-trump-seeks-peace-in-singapore/

>>1712209

Posted this because I enjoyed the writers interpretation it is Witty and Hilarious!

Happening Now: Kim loved the video montage played ahead of the press conference, says Trump 16:54

When asked about the video montage played ahead of the press conference, Trump said: "We had it made… I hope you liked it. I thought it was interesting enough to show… and I showed it to him (Kim) today towards the end of the meeting and I think he loved it."

Happening now: Trump says follow-up US-North Korea talks to take place next week

Asked by ST's Jeremy Au Yong on what the next steps after the summit are, Trump said: "We are working with the regional countries on getting this (deal) going. We are sitting with (National Security Adviser) John Bolton next week to go over the details, to get this stuff done. We are working with South Korea, Japan, China to a lesser extent.

"I will come back gladly, your prime minister is fantastic. He was very welcoming," he added.

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

>>1712220

Absolutely, I enjoyed putting this post up, when people wake up this will be a head scratching laugh for them at how ridiculous (((they))) look.

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots

As the tech moguls disagree over the risks presented by something that doesn’t exist yet, all of Silicon Valley is learning about unintended consequences of A.I.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg thought his fellow Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk was behaving like an alarmist.

Mr. Musk, the entrepreneur behind SpaceX and the electric-car maker Tesla, had taken it upon himself to warn the world that artificial intelligence was “potentially more dangerous than nukes” in television interviews and on social media.

So, on Nov. 19, 2014, Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, invited Mr. Musk to dinner at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. Two top researchers from Facebook’s new artificial intelligence lab and two other Facebook executives joined them.

As they ate, the Facebook contingent tried to convince Mr. Musk that he was wrong. But he wasn’t budging. “I genuinely believe this is dangerous,” Mr. Musk told the table, according to one of the dinner’s attendees, Yann LeCun, the researcher who led Facebook’s A.I. lab.

Mr. Musk’s fears of A.I., distilled to their essence, were simple: If we create machines that are smarter than humans, they could turn against us. (See: “The Terminator,” “The Matrix,” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”) Let’s for once, he was saying to the rest of the tech industry, consider the unintended consequences of what we are creating before we unleash it on the world.

Neither Mr. Musk nor Mr. Zuckerberg would talk in detail about the dinner, which has not been reported before, or their long-running A.I. debate.

The creation of “superintelligence” — the name for the supersmart technological breakthrough that takes A.I. to the next level and creates machines that not only perform narrow tasks that typically require human intelligence (like self-driving cars) but can actually outthink humans — still feels like science fiction. But the fight over the future of A.I. has spread across the tech industry.

Artificial intelligence research has enormous potential and enormous implications, both as an economic engine and a source of military superiority. The Chinese government has said it is willing to spend billions in the coming years to make the country the world’s leader in A.I., while the Pentagon is aggressively courting the tech industry for help. A new breed of autonomous weapons can’t be far away.

https:// www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intelligence.html

Losing Belmont Stakes Owner Claims Collusion Helped Justify Win Triple Crown

Fourth-place horse's owner says Justify stablemate Restoring Hope blocked others to ensure victory.

Justify’s emergence as the only undefeated Triple Crown champion after Seattle Slew and the 13th horse overall to complete the rare sweep went from a feel-good story to one awash in controversy on Sunday.

Queens native Mike Repole, co-owner of fourth-place Vino Rosso and last-place Noble Indy in the field of 10, hopes Belmont Park stewards will question jockey Florent Geroux about his handling of Restoring Hope, Justify’s stablemate, for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.

“Justify is a super horse. He is a Triple Crown winner and he’s undefeated,” said Repole, emphasizing his admiration for the powerful, 6-for-6 colt. “But I can see the stewards looking into this over the next couple of days. I probably expect them to look into reckless riding by Florent and bring him in to question him about what he was thinking and what his tactics were.”

While Justify and Mike Smith, his Hall of Fame rider, smoothly accelerated after breaking from the rail to seize the early lead, Geroux rode vigorously to hustle Restoring Hope toward the front. He soon assumed a position just behind Justify and to his outside.

“It definitely seemed to me he was more of an offensive lineman than a racehorse trying to win the Belmont,” said Repole of 37-1 Restoring Hope, “and Justify was a running back trying to run for a touchdown.”

Gary West, who owns Restoring Hope, was livid about the handling of his horse.

“I have no earthly idea what Florent was thinking or what his race strategy was,” he said in an email response to a request for an interview. “Had I known better, the first eighth of a mile I would have thought it was a quarter-horse race, not the mile-and-a-half Belmont. Maybe the horse was completely out of control and Florent had no choice. I will never know.”

Doug Bredar, the agent for Geroux, said he has no comment and Geroux has no comment.

When a reporter asked Baffert after the race if Restoring Hope served as a “wing man” for Justify, Baffert replied: “He has natural speed. His only chance was to be up near the lead.”

West declined comment on whether Restoring Hope was used to block for Justify, who settled into a comfortable, unpressured advantage that he never relinquished.

“Everyone looks at things differently,” West said. “We didn’t belong in the race, anyway, and that is my fault.”

Restoring Hope was making his first Grade 1 test after he was whipped by 24 ¼ lengths in finishing 12th in the Pat Day Mile on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs as part of the Kentucky Derby undercard.

D. Wayne Lukas, who trained sixth-place Bravazo, does not believe Restoring Hope’s presence mattered. But he acknowledged: “That was strange the way they sent him up there. I mean, he compromised a few horses with blocking and so forth.”

Repole said he questioned Javier Castellano on Sunday morning about his failure to follow instructions with Noble Indy. The 24-1 long shot was expected to confront Justify early with the hope of softening him for Vino Rosso’s late kick. Todd Pletcher, a three-time Belmont winner, trains Noble Indy and Vino Rosso.

“All week and in the paddock, Todd and I were crystal clear to Javier to make the lead,” Repole said. “He broke good. Mike Smith broke good. We definitely saw an opportunity that Javier, being told to make the lead, could have, or at least pressured Justify.”

WinStar Farm, a major player in racing, has financial stakes in Justify and Noble Indy.

Owners with two horses that possess complementary styles often attempt to use one to set up another since both can be said to be trying to win in different ways. Repole said of Noble Indy, “If he has a 5 percent chance to win, his only chance to win was to be on the lead.”

The notion of one long shot possibly “blocking” for a heavy favorite, not to mention one bidding for the Triple Crown, is extraordinary.

As for Castellano’s surprising willingness to track Justify after hustling Noble Indy out of the gate, Repole said of his conversation with him: “He decided to call an audible, and that’s not the way we wanted the race run. I am baffled by the audible.”

https:// nypost.com/2018/06/10/belmont-controversy-erupts-did-alliance-ensure-a-justify-victory/

>>1712361

Noticing a Theme….

>>1712097

I think Dennis Rodman saw that garden, imo that was why he was there in the first place.

>>1712390

I also remember that incident, it was pretty spine chilling creepy!

>>1712407

It is my hope that someday they will, somewhere this will all be documented for someone to blow the dust off and uncover and see it with amazement, awful truth, followed by being grateful for the wonderful world they will be living in. This is an amazing journey we are all on, and I personally wouldn't change a thing about it. We all have had a hand in the explanations so no need to thank me ;)

Congress divided over aircraft, ships and space in defense bill

With the Pentagon newly flush from a two-year funding deal, the House and Senate are now heading toward final negotiations on an annual defense authorization bill that will help direct how the money is spent.

Lawmakers will have to roll up their sleeves and settle disagreements over aircraft, ships and space policy in the coming weeks and months as part of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act conference committee, which usually produces a final bill in the fall.

The legislation will set Pentagon priorities and policies for the final year of a deal struck by Congress to hike defense spending and give the military a chance to rebuild its forces.

The two chambers’ dueling versions of the NDAA diverge in three areas, and the conference negotiations could shift the cost of the roughly $717 billion bill by hundreds of millions of dollars and have profound effects for military operations for years to come.

No doubt the Pentagon will be watching closely as the House and Senate weigh aircraft programs and space reforms it has resisted. Here are the largest expected flashpoints.

JSTARS

The Air Force has been pushing back publicly over efforts to force a replacement of its fleet of 17 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar aircraft, or JSTARS, which could eventually cost $6.5 billion.

The E-8C aircraft fly over a battlefield and collect surveillance information for Army ground forces, but the Air Force says the aircraft are becoming obsolete due to advances in enemy air defenses. Secretary Heather Wilson recently compared the Gulf War-era JSTARS to early 20-ounce cellular phones and dial-up Internet service.

The House version of the NDAA mandates the service move ahead with replacing the Boeing aircraft and authorizes $623 million to do so. But the Senate has no such requirement, noted Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow and defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.

“Based on our analysis resulting from extensive committee oversight activity, we have concluded that completely walking away from this program imposes an unprecedented level of risk to our warfighters,” Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said during a floor speech.

The Senate Armed Services instead proposes blocking the Air Force from retiring the existing JSTARS aircraft while authorizing it to move ahead with its vision for a replacement system of drones, aircraft and space-based sensors.

“We’re just not sure that the replacement plan is really adequate and we want to be sure before we leave a proven platform that we’re not going to be in a place where we don’t have the assets and the resources that we need,” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who sits on the committee, told the Washington Examiner.

The two chambers might not be far from a deal. King simply said “yes” when asked if the Air Force was off on its claim the aircraft would be shot down on the first day of any war.

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/congress-divided-over-aircraft-ships-and-space-in-defense-bill

>>1712467

I think he does, hehe

PM Lee writes to Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un

He congratulates Mr Trump and Mr Kim on successful conclusion of historic summit, says joint statement is "crucial first move in the long journey towards lasting peace and stability on a denuclearised Korean Peninsula". http://str.sg/oYKH

https:// drive.google.com/file/d/15pBLN532cpBuVeXmVfliQLCjSkR9F53k/view

https:// drive.google.com/file/d/19VafCXQwX2C_CB9pym6SyXzPx40_kMf_/view

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

Donald Trump's press conference at Capella lasted more than an hour

According to CNN, it was his first full news conference - taking questions from reporters - in more than a year. The last full conference was on Feb 26 last year, CNN noted.

CBS News' White House correspondent Mark Knoller said this was his second-longest to date at 1 hour and 5 minutes. The Feb 26, 2017, conference lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes.

Mr Trump ended the press conference by hailing the summit as an "important event in world history".

Read ST's report: http://str.sg/oYKf

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

Air Force One takes off from Paya Lebar Airbase

US President Donald Trump left Singapore on Air Force One after his historic summit with Kim Jong Un

https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

>>1712560

Indeed :)