North Korean media goes crazy for Trump’s border meeting with Kim

Bloomberg

North Korean state media released gushing reports of Kim Jong-un’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) summit with President Donald Trump, as the regime sought to use another history-making meeting with the US leader to validate its policy decisions.
The front page of North Korea‘s ruling party Rodong Sinmun newspaper was dominated by a seven-photo splash of Trump making the first crossing of any sitting US president into North Korea, while the country’s main KCNA news agency said the meeting marked a “dramatic turn” of events.
Kim has not been able to win relief from sanctions choking his country’s paltry economy after starting his historic meetings with the US president last year in Singapore. At their hour-long DMZ summit, Kim and Trump agreed to resume talks and said working-level officials from the two countries will soon start discussions on the details of a disarmament deal.
KCNA quoted the North Korean leader as saying that “good personal relations” with Trump made the meeting possible even at a day’s notice, and wrote that “relations would continue to produce good results unpredictable by others and work as a mysterious force overcoming manifold difficulties and obstacles in the future, too.”
The coverage was far more robust than state media’s reporting on the collapsed summit between Trump and Kim in February where it glossed over Trump calling off the talks and complaining that Kim asked for too much in sanctions relief while providing too little disarmament to justify the reward.
Posting more than 30 photos on its website, KCNA described Kim and Trump’s exchange as having ended “inglorious relations between the two countries.” It added that the leaders “voiced full understanding and sympathy” for one another.