The meeting was held in Capella resort, an isolated hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore. The two leaders kicked things off by meeting with only their translators present, a U.S. official said.
Trump and Kim and their translators met first in a session first, before allowing their respective advisers to join them.
President Trump’s advisers who were at the meeting are his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, his Chief of Staff, John Kelly and Ambassador John Bolton, his National Security adviser.
After meeting with Kim privately for about half an hour, Trump declared that they have an “excellent relationship.” Trump predicted that he and Kim will have a “terrific relationship,” and said it’s his “honor” to sit down with the North Korean dictator.
Kim told reporters, via a translator,
“It was not an easy path here. There’s a history of holding onto our ankles,” meaning someone was acting as dead weight, “and it appeared there were times that there were unfortunate practices where they were trying to block our eyes and our ears, but we’ve overcome everything and come to this place.”
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