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    Trump, Kim Sign Joint Document After Summit In Singapore

    President Trump promised that denuclearization would come "very, very quickly," while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that "the world will see a major change."
    by Elise Hu Jun 11, 2018 4 minutes
    Members of the press wait for the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to begin Tuesday morning local time in Singapore.

    Updated at 3:25 a.m. ET Tuesday

    Following a historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, President Trump and Kim Jong Un signed a broad agreement, with the U.S. committing to a "new" diplomatic relationship with Pyongyang in exchange for leader Kim Jong Un's reaffirmation of his "firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."

    However, it wasn't immediately clear whether the agreement went beyond diplomatic platitudes or the half-dozen previous agreements North Korea has signed promising to denuclearize. Nor is it clear the two sides have a common definition of exactly what "denuclearization" entails. But a flurry of diplomacy with regional allies is expected to begin now to work that out. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads

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