Kim & Trump: Big Deal?
By DW
01 December 2018 |
2:22 pm
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shook hands for the first time in Singapore on Tuesday. The two men went on to sign a declaration committing themselves to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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