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For the 2019 Trump–Kim summit, see 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit.

"Singapore summit" redirects here. For the 2015 summit between leaders of mainland China and Taiwan, see Ma–Xi meeting.

2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit Singapore Summit
Logo used by the United States Logo used by Singapore
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump shaking hands at the start of the summit
Host country	Singapore
Date	June 12, 2018 09:00 SGT (01:00 UTC)
Venue(s)	Capella Resort, Sentosa
Participants	Kim Jong-un Donald Trump
Precedes	2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit

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South Korean name
Hangul	북미 정상회담
Hanja	北美 頂上會談
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Bungmi jeongsanghoedam McCune–Reischauer Pungmi jŏngsanghoedam
North Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	조미 수뇌상봉
Hancha	朝美 首腦相逢
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Jomi sunoesangbong McCune–Reischauer Chomi sunoesangbong

The 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, commonly known as Singapore Summit, was a summit meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, held at the Capella Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore. This was the first-ever meeting between leaders of North Korea and the United States. They signed a joint statement, agreeing to security guarantees for North Korea, new peaceful relations, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, recovery of soldiers' remains, and follow-up negotiations between high-level officials. Both leaders also met separately with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Immediately following the summit, President Trump announced that the U.S.military would discontinue "provocative" joint military exercises with South Korea, and stated that he wished to bring the U.S. soldiers back home at some point, but he reinforced that it was not part of the Singapore equation. On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Senate passed the military budget bill for 2019, forbidding funding the reduction of active USFK personnel below 22,000; significant removal of US forces is considered a non-negotiable item in denuclearization talks with the North.

After a period of heightened conflict that included North Korea successfully testing what it claims was its first hydrogen bomb and the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in late 2017, tensions began to de-escalate after Kim Jong-un announced his desire to send athletes to the 2018 Winter Olympics being held in South Korea. During the games, Kim proposed talks with South Korea to plan an inter-Korean summit. On March 8, the South Korean delegation returned from the talks and traveled to the United States to deliver an invitation by Kim Jong-un to Donald Trump for a meeting. High-level exchanges between the two sides then took place, including a visit by then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang and a visit by Kim Yong-chol, Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, to the White House. Both sides threatened to cancel the summit after a round of joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea, with Trump even delivering a formal letter to Kim to call off the meeting; however, the two sides eventually agreed to meet. A second meeting was held between Trump and Kim in February 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Background

See also: North Korea–United States relations

USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group and South Korean Navy vessels having a joint exercise on May 3, 2017