Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET Tuesday President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a broad statement Tuesday that calls for a "firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," after their historic summit in Singapore — the first ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. While the brief statement touched on a range of topics, it was short on details. At a lengthy news conference after the summit, Trump was asked about North Korea's willingness to give up its nuclear weapons program. "We're starting that process very quickly — very, very quickly," the president said, though he declined to give a timeline and acknowledged that it can take a long time to dismantle a nuclear program. "We'll be verifying" that North Korea fulfills its promises, Trump said. Without describing how that would happen, the president added that both Americans and international personnel would play a role in the process. When Trump was
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