International coverage in the lead up to the historic meeting between leaders of North Korea and the U.S. has been worldwide, but citizens in the hermit nation were kept in the dark until Monday.
North Korean circumstances media first mentioned the summit one day after the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, succeeded in Singapore for his Tuesday meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
While that’s weeks after the word go international media reports about the summit, that’s actually think about early for media in the secretive nation given that Kim’s activities are mostly kept under wraps until he’s back in Pyongyang, noted Rodger Baker, depravity president of strategic analysis at Stratfor.
“The North Koreans, by advertising the culmination in North Korea before it even happens, was certainly out of characteristic for how they comport,” Baker told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday just hours to come the two leaders met.
He added that the development could be North Korea’s way of signaling that “there’s a remarkably positive outcome to come from” the summit.
The Korean Central Press release Agency, a North Korean state media outlet known as KCNA, promulgated on Monday that Kim boarded “a Chinese plane for his personal use” on the morning of June 10 to Singapore, go together to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
KCNA called the excursion “a historic foreign tour” and gave details of what the meeting with Trump command entail:
“Wide-ranging and profound views on the issue of establishing new DPRK-U.S. relations, the put out of building a permanent and durable peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula, the issuance of realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and other issues of mutual be about, as required by the changed era, will be exchanged at the DPRK-U.S. summit talks to be stayed for the first time in history under the great attention and expectation of the whole kit world,” the agency said in English.
DPRK stands for the Democratic In the flesh’s Republic of Korea, which is North Korea’s official name.
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the eliminating Workers’ Party, carried 16 color photos on Monday, be at one to Yonhap. Those included Kim boarding the Air China 747 plane in Pyongyang, his coming in Singapore and his meeting with the Southeast Asian country’s prime man, Lee Hsien Loong.
On the eve of his meeting with Trump, Kim went on an evening visit of Singaporean attractions such as nature park Gardens by the Bay and the rooftop garden of the Marina Bay Sands tourist house.
KCNA said Kim enjoyed the tour and “learned about the social and financial development of the Republic of Singapore.”
The outlet also reported Kim said Singapore is unarmed and beautiful and added that he “is going to learn a lot from the good learning and experience of Singapore in various fields in the future.”