
Details:
- President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks.
- This was the third meeting between two leaders in just over a year on an old Cold War frontier that for decades has symbolised hostility between their countries, which are technically still at war.
- Trump while escorted by Kim, briefly crossed a military demarcation line into North Korea and moments later, they returned to the South Korean side and joined South Korea's President Moon Jae-In for a brief chat, marking an unprecedented 3-way gathering.
About previous US-North Korea Meets:
- 1st Summit:
- The first summit was held in 2018 between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore city, called as the North Korea-United States Singapore Summit or Singapore Summit.
- At the summit, a joint statement was signed between the two agreeing to security guarantees for North Korea, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, new peaceful relations, recovery of soldiers' remains, and follow-up negotiations between high-level officials.
- 2nd Summit:
- The second summit was held in February 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam and was called as the North Korea-United States Hanoi Summit, or Hanoi Summit.
- This meet was cut short and no agreement was reached as the two sides failed to narrow differences between them.
- The US demanded North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and North Korea demanded relief of sanctions.
Question:
Q. United States President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in which country? a. Venezuela
b. North Korea
c. Cuba
d. Iceland