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North Korean media hails summit as Trump presses for full denuclearization

Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in smile before their meeting at Peace House of the border village in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea.

North Korea's state news agency on Saturday called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.

The North's KCNA news agency separately released the joint statement North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in presented on Friday after the first summit in more than a decade between the two Koreas.

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