2018 North Korea–United States summit facts for kids

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un shaking hands at the summit

The North Korea–United States summit was a planned meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States that took place on June 12, 2018 in Singapore.

The White House confirmed the meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un on 8 March 2018. This was the first time that a sitting U.S. President met the leader of North Korea since the Korean War.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that "in the meantime, all sanctions and maximum pressure must remain."

Kim talked about preparations for the meeting in remarks to the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea on April 9.

On May 10, Trump announced that the summit will be held on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. It was announced after the release of 3 American hostages by North Korea.

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USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group and South Korean Navy vessels having a joint exercise on May 3, 2017
Artist's conception of the Hwasong-15 on its mobile launch vehicle, depicted to scale
Moon Jae-in (standing, lower left) with the North Korean representatives (upper right) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (lower right) at the PyeongChang Olympics
Chung Eui-yong (left), the South Korean national security chief, and Kim Jong-un meeting in Pyongyang on March 5, 2018. Kim is holding a letter from President Moon Jae-in arranging for direct peace talks.
ROK President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump, November 2017
Kim and President of South Korea Moon Jae-in shake hands in greeting, in an initiating gesture for the April 2018 inter-Korean summit.
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome home three American returnees from North Korea.
A commemorative coin released on May 21 by the White House Communications Agency for the summit
Kim Yong-chol met with Pompeo on May 30, and with Trump on June 1.
Moon Jae-in met with Trump on May 22.
North Korea shut down its Punggye-ri nuclear test site on 23 May (Thursday) to demonstrate its commitment to denuclearization.
Logo used at the International Media Centre
U.S. Secretary of State (then CIA Director) Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong-un meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea on March 31, 2018
North Korea's Vice Chairman Kim Yong-chol delivers a personal letter from Kim to Trump, in the White House Oval Office on June 1, 2018.
Trump together with Vice Chairman Kim Yong-chol of the North Korean delegation, outside the Oval Office
Kim arrived in Singapore in an Air China Boeing 747-400 registered B-2447; Photo of this aircraft taken in Beijing in March 2018
Kim and Trump before the start of their one-on-one meeting
The expanded bilateral meeting between both the United States and North Korean delegations
Trump at the news conference after the summit
After the Trump-Kim summit, North Korea searched for and returned the remains of U.S. POWs and MIAs from the Korean War.

The US war remains were delivered from the eastern DPRK city of Wonsan by U.S. military transport plane C-17 Globemaster to the Osan Air Base near Seoul in South Korea.

North Korea dismantled the various significant parts and permanent structure of the Sohae ICBM missile & Satellite Launching Station.